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Title: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on January 15, 2008, 08:42:57 PM
It's nice to have something resembling a morning routine beyond shit, shower, shave. Running through the secure familiarity of a comic strip is one of the more pleasant options. Unfortunately, the internet's ability to make me smile in anything other than a the-world-is-ten-kinds-of-fucked-and-the-bitch-had-it-coming kind of way has waned recently.

Current reading list includes:

xkcd (http://www.xkcd.com/) - Actually, this is more insecure familiarity. The kind you get when you realize that someone has been following you around and drawing crude stick figure illustrations of your life's most uncomfortable moments.

Achewood (http://www.achewood.com/) - Obviously. Infrequent laugh out loud moments, but a constant feeling of satisfaction. Plus, the ever present hope that it'll again do something comparable to that Cartilage Head arc.

Cat and Girl (http://www.catandgirl.com/) - Was somewhat more entertaining before I started sharing a desk with Jeremy. USRDA of existential angst re: modern life is more than met.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 15, 2008, 08:50:14 PM
Dresden Codak (http://dresdencodak.com/), Minus (http://kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html), and Rice Boy (http://riceboy.jho-tan.com/) are good eatin'.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on January 15, 2008, 09:03:06 PM
Dresden Codak (http://dresdencodak.com/), Minus (http://kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html), and Rice Boy (http://riceboy.jho-tan.com/) are good eatin'.

Rice boy was fun when there was archive to go through, but it's so slow moving that unless I forget about it for a few months and catch up all at once it just doesn't do anything. It's like reading a book at one letter per day.

Dresden Codak, however, is entirely new to me, and love at first sight. At least, if they're all anything like the first one I saw.

I periodically check on Gunnerkirgg Court (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/), and feel intensely ashamed of myself for it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 15, 2008, 09:09:25 PM
White Ninja (http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/) is the best ninja in comics. Yes, even better than Dr. McNinja (http://drmcninja.com/). And Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (http://www.smbc-comics.com/), while good (fluctuates from "hilarious" to "tries too hard"), is primarily remarkable for its update schedule, which is usually once or sometimes even twice a day.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on January 15, 2008, 09:14:46 PM
Scary Go Round (http://www.scarygoround.com/) and Achewood are dailies.

I'm the sort of word mutant who also bookmarks Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html) for my weekly.

And this wins forever (http://www.drunkduck.com/Nintendo_Super_Squad/) because half the time the facial expressions are enough to draw laughter.

I'm still fucking bummed that Solomon (http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/) went out of business. Trashing webcomics is always a good time and a good troll.

I've actually pulled away from quite a few stinkers in my time. It's like actually adopting and sticking to new good habits, you feel smarter and better.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 15, 2008, 09:45:45 PM
I've personally added webcomics to my nightly routine, right before shave, shower, and shit.  At this point it's:

Sluggy Freelance (http://www.sluggy.com/) - Yeah, yeah.  Reading Sluggy at this point is just like being married to the thing; we're both constantly angry and cheating on each other, and the bitch ain't getting any prettier, but frankly we've been together for so long that I just can't imagine it not being there every night to let me know the world's still stable.

8-Bit Theater (http://www.nuklearpower.com/) - If Sluggy's my wife, 8BT is my evil harpy of an ex who I can't seem to stop seeing even though I completely hate her guts.

Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/) - Easily the most improved artwork in a webcomic ever, while the writing has always been consistently intelligent and entertaining.  Your daily fix of soft-boiled sci-fi and hard-boiled wit.

The Adventures of Doctor McNinja (http://www.drmcninja.com/) - Currently my favorite of the lot.  When it's not consistently funny, it's consistently awesome.  For some reason I can never convince anybody besides Thad of this, though.

Achewood (http://www.achewood.com/) - The only current strip-format comic, digital or otherwise, with any sort of cultural value whatsoever... which the creator himself thinks is a ridiculous idea and constantly makes fun of.  People I tend to make friends with always seem to already be reading it.

Looking for Group (http://www.lfgcomic.com/) - I haven't played WoW in over a year, but the beauty of LFG is that it doesn't require in depth knowledge of who Nerz'ghul is or anything like that.  It's content to simply spend its time skewering the various archetypes and stereotypes that WoW presents.  I do wish Sohmer would get a writer or something, though, because sometimes he misses something and then suddenly the plot makes no sense.

Maxwell the Demon (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/tonia/maxwell/series.php) - Your standard "Devil in a business suit" tale, written by a woman, which for some reason makes it so much the more better.  Beautifully drawn, too.  Most of the time.

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/justinpie/wonderella/series.php) - Deconstructing superheroines.  Yep yep.

Misfile (http://www.misfile.com/) - I really ought to stop reading this crap, but it always seems about a week away from a teenage lesbian sex scene.  Like Kryptonite, I am powerless to resist.

Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/) - I keep up with PA, but I don't read it with any regularity and I usually don't read the news posts much unless it's necessary to understand the strip (which it often is, god damn it).  Tycho and Gabe understand their own importance in the gamer community and they tend to be a little bit irritating about it, whether they mean to or not.

There's also a smattering of strips that I'll check in on every few months and read the archives of, or which are probably still good and I don't read them anymore.  This list is probably more than enough for now, though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on January 15, 2008, 09:56:58 PM
I actually still read PA since like, their second year and enjoy it pretty regularly.

But every time they copy and paste after so many fucking years I want to fly out just to slug Gabe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bal on January 15, 2008, 10:11:47 PM
Perry Bible Fellowship (http://pbfcomics.com/) delivers on a regular basis.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on January 15, 2008, 10:18:03 PM
I do read PA. I kind of left it out, with a few others, because it's kind of like pointing out that you breathe air. I'm frequently entertained by it, and Tycho's ramblings.

Gabe, on the other hand, I'm still annoyed with after that rant about Assassin's Creed reviews. The one where he pretty much said our reviewer must not have enjoyed it because he was driven to play through it rapidly for a review. Which was both pure conjecture and douchebaggery. The extended argument is that the circumstances under which a professional critic works render his opinion invalid. It's an accusation that ranks up there with "somebody else paid you to trash it," and "You just hate Sony/Microsoft/The Jews" on the list of popular horseshit explanations for why the opinion of a critic of any medium isn't in line with yours. Those kinds of comments, however, are typically limited to barely literate slopeheads who don't realize there are numbers between 1 and 10 and spend way too much time advertising the fact in review comments, because any of these things are apparently more plausible than maybe someone just playing the damn thing and having less fun than you did. I figured he knew better.

Especially what with this (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24) particular comic, which sums up the entire above rant in a much more entertaining way.

Which isn't to say that I hate the guy. I just wish he'd stick to drawing and dick jokes.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on January 15, 2008, 10:36:55 PM
Each and every one* of you should feel ashamed for not mentioning Perry Bible Fellowship (http://www.pbfcomics.com/).  I'm not really sure what the update schedule is, but each comic never fails to make me laugh.

The Pain (http://www.thepaincomics.com/) is probably the best political cartoon in existence, and the artist's statements that back up each comic are insightful, poignant, and hilarious all at once.

Brad Neely is most likely some kind of savant.  After delivering to us the George Washington music video, his Creased Comics (http://www.creasedcomics.com/) are just about the most bizarre things I've ever seen.

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISY0aKoxwo)

Bad Gods (http://badgods.com/) is the latest from Lore Sjolberg but it's infrequently updated.

And finally, KC Green (http://www.horribleville.com/) is my fucking hero and shall be until I die.  Amen.


*not bal, apparently.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 15, 2008, 10:41:12 PM
PBF got listed. But anyway.

Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/) is lively and consistent entertainment, and although Dinosaur Comics (http://www.qwantz.com/) seems past its prime, that still puts it far ahead of the pack, and other trite metaphors.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 15, 2008, 10:41:43 PM
There's not enough PBF to read frequently.  Same with Girly.  Your best bet is to let them simmer for a long time, then catch it all in a block.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on January 15, 2008, 10:44:07 PM
PBF got listed. But anyway.

Liar.




Oh wait.  Man, I'm used to every post on Pyoko being HUGE HUGE HUGE
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on January 15, 2008, 11:44:40 PM
Nobody Scores (http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/).  I really can't think of any way to make this seem appealing at the moment except to use vague terms such as "like Dresden Codak, only with less science and more sociology and economics."
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 16, 2008, 07:33:24 AM
Sociology and economics are science! Technically!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: R^2 on January 16, 2008, 08:00:40 AM
Everything else I read has been mentioned, but I do enjoy PartiallyClips (http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php) from time to time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on January 16, 2008, 08:20:32 AM
From month to month, I've the 'luxury' of forgetting web comics even exist, as a medium or otherwise, so updates are a non-issue.

The only two I visit with any frequency are The Pain (mentioned above), and Bob The Angry Flower (http://www.angryflower.com/), which is now in formula land. Thankfully, the formula works, the author's very recent admiration of Ron Paul not withstanding.

The Nineteenth-Century Industrialist (http://thebaron.comicgenesis.com/) - A true discovery from the last time we went over this topic. Glib writing aside, the lining and coloring seem to be one or two filters away from finished.

Never understood the appeal of Achewood, and Minus (the character) ticks me off enough that I wish to stomp on her children's genitals.


Dresden Codak (http://dresdencodak.com/)

Holy. Shit.


PBF got listed.

And so did Schlock Mercenary. OH SLAM BOYEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee~~~
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on January 16, 2008, 10:13:02 AM
http://www.nedroid.com/
http://www.malfunctionjunction.net/
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: S D S on January 16, 2008, 10:49:04 AM
A bunch of the ones I read are already mentioned (Order of the Stick, Penny Arcade, Bad Gods, xkcd, Something Positive, The Pain, Achewood, Nedroid) , so:

Minus (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/). It's a little hard to explain. I'd recommend starting at the very beginning and working your way up to now. In a nutshell, there's this kid, Minus, who has odd flights of fancy and is apparently wields godlike amounts of power of over time and reality, and uses it for stuff you'd maybe expect: go on weird adventures, fuck with grownups, terrorize cites, etc. And I love the art. As the artist explains, "Each minus strip is painted on a 15x20" piece of Illustration board. 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! "

Some Guy With A Website (http://www.someguywithawebsite.com)-- The art is okay, but the political humor and some of the more surreal jokes are right up my alley. The artist is probably most famous for his Internet Argument Cartoon (http://xoverboard.com/cartoons/2007/070416_argument.html).

Ozy and Millie (http://www.ozyandmillie.org)-- I like the art, and something about the strip reminds my of Calvin and Hobbes before Watterson turned into a bit of a bitter cartoonist hermit.

I don't know if This Modern World, The K Chronicles and Tom The Dancing Bug count though-- I read them ON the web, but they were print comics first.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 16, 2008, 12:24:10 PM
Ozy and Millie I can't read because I know too much about the author and his friends.

goddam furfags  :thad:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: S D S on January 17, 2008, 08:07:06 AM
I must now add another webcomic I discovered today that I now absolutely  :wuv: : "Don't Forget TO Validate Your Parking, available here: http://mikelehqpics.livejournal.com/

It's kind of an insider-scriptwriter MNFTIU done by a striking WGA writer.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on January 17, 2008, 08:58:04 PM
I'll only list things that haven't been mentioned yet.

Lucid TV (http://www.lucid-tv.com/index.html) - Good Art, Medical Theme, Absurd Humor.

Thingpart (http://www.jsayers.com/thingpart/thingpart.html) - Unique sense of humor, updates weekly on Wednesday and is never late.

Pokey the Penguin (http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/) - Defies description

Well, looks like everything else in my bookmarks has been mentioned already.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: PhoenixUltima on January 17, 2008, 10:02:46 PM
Concerned (http://www.hlcomic.com/) - A webcomic made in Garry's Mod about the misadventures of a loveable dope in the Half-Life 2 universe. No wait, come back! It's funny! Really! It's also hit the end of its story and is no longer updated, but the archives are definitely worth going over. Also each comic has artist commentary, something I fell in love with after I started reading the aformentioned The Pain, and fell even more in love with after the delightful developer commentary in HL2's episodes and Portal. I'd gladly shell out up to $20 just to get dev commentary for the original Half-Life 2. No, really.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: on January 18, 2008, 03:06:21 AM
I still read PvP (http://www.pvponline.com).


...shut up it's funny from time to time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on January 18, 2008, 10:04:39 AM
PvP is trash and Kurtz has a room temperature IQ. PvP was one of the dailies that felt good to drop.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 18, 2008, 10:21:19 AM
The only thing I miss about PvP is seeing my webcomic persona getting mauled by giant pandas.

Well, that and the discomforting validation that somebody is following me around and basing a webcomic character around my own misadventures.

ADDENDUM: Just checked it out to see, and yes, he is still following me around (http://www.pvponline.com/2008/01/15/tv-reality/) and writing about my life (http://www.pvponline.com/2008/01/08/wow-frau/).  That is fucking weird.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on January 19, 2008, 02:41:23 PM
Brad Neely is most likely some kind of savant.

His veins course with concentrated entertainitude. So bright is the light of his mirth, that even the darkest crevices of wizardry fanfiction (http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=HarryPotterCentral&page=2) cannot escape its shine.

Quote from: HarryPotterCentral
Wizard People, Dear Reader is an unauthorized re-envisioning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by Brad Neely.

After spreading rapidly among Neely's friends in Austin, Wizard People made its theatrical debut at the New York Underground Film Festival, to rapturous applause. We think Neely has crafted an as-of-yet-unnamed new art form, one everyone should experience for themselves.

Part 21 of 35:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0I-jZ7OB0c

Complete with gracious explanation and defense in part 35 during the credits.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on January 19, 2008, 05:20:33 PM
Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

You know what webcomic was totally tubular?!?

Huh? Huhuhuhuhuhhuhuhuh? Do ya? DO YA?

...

...

CRAZY BUFFET (http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147858) (click!)

The initial post (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=6417057&publicUserId=5244814) was deceptively golden, with everyone (+ Kayma) going all  ::O: :MENDOZAAAAA: :omg:

The subject matter is what separated it from the pack of other panel wasters. Bonus points to Pading for withstanding Zee Trollensteiner Wehrmacht (http://www.1up.com/do/club?pager.offset=10&clubid=85442) (and the CRUSHING OF DREAMS (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=7337241&publicUserId=5244814)), only to continue onward with CB2 (superior, for a multitude of reasonings (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8302623&publicUserId=5244814)).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on January 19, 2008, 06:07:18 PM
Best to use this as a 'random comic i saw today that i liked and you will too, godammit' thread as the recommendations run dry.

Truck Bearing Kibble (http://truckbearingkibble.com/comic/) wants to be PBF so bad, it hurts me more Snake.

http://www.malfunctionjunction.net/

Huh. Yet another web (http://www.marriedtothesea.com/) comic (http://toothpastefordinner.com/) artist (http://nataliedee.com/) within (http://www.shortpacked.com/) dangerous (http://www.marilith.com/) proximity (http://www.brainbotjr.com/) of me.

:>_>: They'll gobble up my desirable wit like hungry jackals in the night.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on January 22, 2008, 10:05:13 PM
The initial post (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=6417057&publicUserId=5244814) was deceptively golden, with everyone (+ Kayma) going all  ::O: :MENDOZAAAAA: :omg:

Loves me some Crazy Buffet. I'm glad He's been doing them so regularly.

Also, on Minus:  I have this one (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html) framed and hanging on my wall. Justifies the entire idea of webcomics, in my opinion.

Plus, I love the Little Nemo vibe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on January 23, 2008, 12:45:33 AM
Mostly Classic's story has been cutting back on his stories. He's slowly stopped following even Dinosaur Comics, which he does  :wuv: pretty amazingly.

Mostly all that he keeps up with (of the awesome ones already mentioned) nowadays are SGR and P-A.

He also checks, for reasons he cannot adequately explain: Sam and Fuzzy (http://www.samandfuzzy.com), Questionable Content (http://www.questionablecontent.net), Revolver Knight (http://revolver-knight.com/), Zap! (http://www.zapinspace.com/), and NNFB! (http://www.noneedforbushido.com/). Well, he has a guess as to why he follows the final three. Mostly they eerily echo the sophomoric ideas he was entertaining back in high-school, before he realized that he didn't have enough interest to actually cultivate a good drawing style. It is suspected he continues to monitor them for clues as to how to reclaim the amazing powers he must have accidentally leaked to their tiny, fleshy brains.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on January 25, 2008, 05:01:26 PM
Jeffery Rowland recently linked to Anders Loves Maria (http://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/), and it's been pretty good.

Seconding Scary-Go-Round. It's a perpetual delight, surpassed in whimsy only by the eternal grand master of delight. (http://koiwai.biz/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lobst on January 25, 2008, 06:23:15 PM
Horribleville (http://www.horribleville.com/) is a side-project by the iconic KC Green, where he draws comics about the creative ennui that comes with drawing comics!  He must be doing a really good job, because I sympathize completely with his plight, and I haven't drawn a comic in months and months.  ;__;

Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net/) has been having magnificent Sunday comics, even if the dailies can be extremely predictable and formulaic.

My Cage (http://kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mycage/about.htm) is a newspaper comic about talking animals in an office environment, but has done a spectacular job of being as close to legitimately-funny as newspaper comics about talking animals can get.

Cigarro & Cerveja (http://www.cigarro.ca/) recently switched to a daily format, but the strip's piercing sense of humor and the consistently marvelous portrayal of the titular duo has survived the jump.  Don't read anything into the fact that the most recent joke arc focuses heavily on fuzzy bear pajama suits.  D:

Ozy & Millie (http://www.ozyandmillie.org/)--

You know, I should just stop now while I'm ahead.  :|
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on January 25, 2008, 07:39:41 PM
Ozy & Millie really does have a good track record of being very funny and well-written. You just have to be able to induce a very delicate state of cognitive dissonance. A good starting point for this is pretending that "Ozy & Millie" is no more furry than "Pearls Before Swine", "Get Fuzzy", or any other newspaper comic featuring anthropomorphic animals.

It's probably best to exclude "Slylock Fox (http://joshreads.com/?cat=66)" from that pool.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: parish on January 26, 2008, 10:27:55 AM
Truck Bearing Kibble (http://truckbearingkibble.com/comic/) wants to be PBF so bad, it hurts me more Snake.
Holy crap, that's shameless. I'm embarrassed for him.

Fun fact: Crazy Buffet was only cancelled because John Davison completely hated it. In retrospect, I realize John's approval isn't worth the paper it's printed on, so I'm glad Pading kept on with his comics. His art has improved considerably and I think if he would get away from video game topics he could do well for himself.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on January 26, 2008, 11:26:50 AM
Sex, Lies, And Pading: the truth comes out!  :smile:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on January 28, 2008, 08:34:47 AM
The initial post (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=6417057&publicUserId=5244814) was deceptively golden, with everyone (+ Kayma) going all  ::O: :MENDOZAAAAA: :omg:

Loves me some Crazy Buffet. I'm glad He's been doing them so regularly.

Also, on Minus:  I have this one (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus37.html) framed and hanging on my wall. Justifies the entire idea of webcomics, in my opinion.

Plus, I love the Little Nemo vibe.

Actually, I liked that one way better before reading the rest and learning that the little girl is a Q or whatever. It had a nice sense of futile but confident defiance.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on January 28, 2008, 06:08:02 PM
Actually, I liked that one way better before reading the rest and learning that the little girl is a Q or whatever. It had a nice sense of futile but confident defiance.

 :oh:

Why'd you have to go and liken her to Q.... That's lame.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on January 28, 2008, 06:30:48 PM
NO YOUR LAME
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on January 28, 2008, 06:33:37 PM
The man has a point.

(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7594/81tv7.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on January 28, 2008, 06:34:43 PM
YOUR EL LAME, SENOR
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 28, 2008, 10:00:03 PM
TRANSLATION: The lame, which is yours, Mr. [insert name here].
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on January 28, 2008, 10:07:22 PM
Why'd you have to go and liken her to Q.... That's lame.
:whut:
 :down:
 :down:
 :down:






(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/q.jpg) ?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on January 28, 2008, 10:22:13 PM
 :hurr:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: sei on January 29, 2008, 12:01:36 AM
Horribleville (http://www.horribleville.com/) is a side-project by the iconic KC Green, where he draws comics about the creative ennui that comes with drawing comics!  He must be doing a really good job, because I sympathize completely with his plight, and I haven't drawn a comic in months and months.  ;__;
Depressing. (http://nightgig.com/argh/horribleville/100.htm)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 02, 2008, 09:28:53 PM
This page (http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=39&issue=10) pretty much exemplifies why I love Dr. McNinja so much.  Very few webcomics can still make me laugh out loud after I've been reading it for so long.  In fact the only other one is really Achewood, and that's usually more of nervous or WTF kind of laughter.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on February 06, 2008, 02:45:00 PM
head injury theater (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/abchorror.htm) - Found while searching for the Song Currently Stuck In Your Head  (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=69.0) image.

The section linked above has a charm about it that Jhonen Vasquez flirted with, but the rest of the work is only fit for bizarro Bazooka Joe wrappers at best.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 06, 2008, 06:54:19 PM
North World (http://north-world.com/index.php) seems pretty good.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on February 12, 2008, 11:04:51 AM
kc green is magical
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on February 12, 2008, 01:57:20 PM
How is it that in three pages of discussion, Jeffry Rowland's name is invoked and yet no one has linked to Overcompensating.com (http://www.overcompensating.com/)?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on February 15, 2008, 07:28:06 AM
Seems nobody's mentioned Dinosaur Comics (http://qwantz.com).  Where's the love?


fake edit:  oh wait, there it is...  Well shit, just about everything I follow has been mentioned.  Uh, Bang Barstal (http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/bang_grsm.php?view=archive&chapter=14393&mpe=1) is pretty awesome, but it's also done.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on February 15, 2008, 09:57:38 AM
Freak Angels (http://www.freakangels.com/) begins today.  For those who don't know, Freak Angels is a free webcomic by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield.  New installments will come every Friday and it is about London drowning.





Note: Is there a way to link to YouTube video without it specifically embedding in the post?  Because, that's annoying.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on February 15, 2008, 11:05:44 AM
TinyURL, yo.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 20, 2008, 07:29:03 PM
PBF going into semi-retirement. (http://www.blorgable.com/2008/02/19/the-perry-bible-fellowship-enters-semi-retirement/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 20, 2008, 08:53:10 PM
Wait, the guy was actually on a schedule before?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on February 27, 2008, 12:58:59 AM
So, I started reading Anders <3 Maria (http://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/about/).  I assume I have this thread to blame, because I can't remember where else I would have heard about it.  Anyway, it's excellent, but I have one question: is it illegal to portray a naked fifteen-year-old having sex?  Because, see, whatever the law is in Sweden--I live in America, and things are different here.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on February 27, 2008, 02:31:09 AM
nice try throwing in a reference to nonexistent underaged sex in a webcomic to rope in new readers, Rene Engström.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on February 27, 2008, 05:18:37 AM
That would really be very clever of me, if
A. I were actually a Swedish-Canadian woman named Rene Engström, and
B. the nonexistent underaged sex were actually nonexistent.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on February 27, 2008, 06:00:14 AM
Looks like you're going to jail, Newbie.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on February 27, 2008, 11:22:46 AM
I know a guy who can get you moved to Juvee.  :vampire:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Angryoptimist on February 28, 2008, 02:17:25 PM
Ctrl+f indicates that nobody'd mentioned Gone With The Blastwave (http://www.blastwavecomic.com/).  Not precisely the best thing since sex, but post-apocalyptic black humor just does it for me.  Updates every eon or so (recently updated).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 03, 2008, 07:37:13 AM
The Adventures of AdventureKid (http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Adventures_of_AdventureKid/) is off to a good start.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 05, 2008, 08:29:15 PM
Pretty Damn Funny (http://katebeaton.com/Site/Welcome.html)

... though, a lot more so if you're Canadian.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on March 06, 2008, 07:43:04 PM
You never know, it might prompt people to read up on our history.

 :mystery: Didja know Canada provided the template for apartheid in South Africa through its use of reservations and residential schools?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 06, 2008, 08:21:25 PM
 :sadpanda:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: sei on March 09, 2008, 03:05:59 PM
Enjoying explosm.net (http://www.explosm.net/) doesn't likely garner any respect.

EDIT: Looks like the good:bad ratio has gotten a good deal worse since last checking.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on March 09, 2008, 03:14:55 PM
You know, I bet it actually takes longer to load the ads on explosm than it does to make a Cyanide & Happiness comic.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: sei on March 09, 2008, 03:16:29 PM
Hooray for AdblockPlus.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lady Duke on March 19, 2008, 01:38:31 PM
I like the comics here http://www.birdandmoon.com/birdandmoon/ (http://www.birdandmoon.com/birdandmoon/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 15, 2008, 07:08:23 PM
Dang! (http://shmorky.com/achewoodtestb.swf)

Not official apparently but still.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on May 15, 2008, 10:27:04 PM
So I guess Rice Boy ended.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on May 25, 2008, 09:41:50 PM
You've all been way too happy, lately.

Read this (http://www.stanford.edu/group/cwstudents/shakegirl/pageturn.html). That should ruin your day.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Catloaf on May 25, 2008, 10:25:25 PM
You've all been way too happy, lately.

Read this (http://www.stanford.edu/group/cwstudents/shakegirl/pageturn.html). That should ruin your day.
:sadpanda:
...
...
...
Oh yeah, I'm an American.  Happy again. :richiam:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on May 26, 2008, 01:42:02 AM
You've all been way too happy, lately.

Read this (http://www.stanford.edu/group/cwstudents/shakegirl/pageturn.html). That should ruin your day.

I like it! This is supposed to be depressing? People just don't know how to appreciate sad stories any more, is all. Even sad true stories.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on May 26, 2008, 02:21:22 AM
It sounds weird, but it's true! It's a Sad Story, of course. But it's very much a Good Story, too. I enjoyed it a lot.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 26, 2008, 07:44:19 AM
Yeah, I wasn't so depressed by it.  It sets you up for this huge tragedy that turns out to be kinda superficial and then she's happy with everything about her life.  I'm pretty sure she's a lot luckier than 99% of the girls there.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 26, 2008, 04:04:49 PM
I'm gonna come out and say that being beaten in public and then having acid poured on your face hardly counts as superficial.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on May 28, 2008, 05:04:51 PM
The Abominable Charles Christopher (http://horhaus.com/abominable/) is pretty adorable.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on June 01, 2008, 11:24:50 PM
4chan presents: the ultimate CAD Rule (http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/CTRL_ALT_Delete#The_CAD_Rule).

(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/cadrule.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 02, 2008, 11:05:54 PM
8-Bit Theater hits 1000 god damn sprite comics today.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 07, 2008, 11:37:37 AM
This about sums up CAD pretty nicely. (http://superhappy.livejournal.com/329198.html#cutid1)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 11, 2008, 09:32:49 PM
FUCK YES RAMSES LUTHER IS BACK

hide your beer bottles if you want to live
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on June 12, 2008, 12:28:03 AM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Thad on June 13, 2008, 04:53:10 PM
oh hey. (http://www.drunkduck.com/Nintendo_Super_Squad/?p=416197)

It perhaps bears repeating (http://www.corporate-sellout.com/index.php/2006/04/05/april_fools/) at this point that April 7 is not fucking April Fool's Day.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on June 13, 2008, 04:57:19 PM
That's the joke.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Thad on June 13, 2008, 04:59:42 PM
Yes, but as jokes go it's sort of like the old bit about how a waiter telling you they're out of what you ordered doesn't really count as sarcasm.

If you are the only person laughing at the joke you just made, you did it wrong.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on June 13, 2008, 06:12:06 PM
Let me clarify. The joke is that the cartoonist pretends to be an idiot and sees how many people are fooled.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on June 13, 2008, 07:52:43 PM
See also. (http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Dooly on June 14, 2008, 03:24:18 PM
I'd just call it April Laziness, myself.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 15, 2008, 09:13:22 AM
I like Schlock Mercenary because people are mean to the main characters but then they realize the main characters have A LOT OF FIREPOWER and then they're all nice and/or dead and this exact scenario happens time after time after time
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 15, 2008, 10:48:11 AM
You'd think the street hoodlums would eventually figure out not to try to extort people who drive up in A GOD DAMN FLYING TANK.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on July 01, 2008, 03:40:04 PM
I actually enjoyed some of Dresden Codak, up until, you know, shit happened (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_054.html)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on July 01, 2008, 08:26:03 PM
Your Webcomic Is Bad had a couple (http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/dresden-codak.html) things (http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/dresden-codak-part-ii.html) to say about dresden codak.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 02, 2008, 11:41:24 AM
Wait, Aaron Diaz is not going to do any more single-serving comics even after this Neon Genesis Evangelion shit ends?

FUCK
THIS
SHIT


IF I WANT SCI FI COMICS WITH BARELY UNDERSTANDABLE PLOTS I ALREADY HAVE PASTEL DEFENDER HELIOTROPE
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Guild on July 02, 2008, 11:45:46 PM
http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus.html

aparently minus is over

all good things, especially the best things...

so long and thanks for all the nostalgic childhood fantasy
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on July 03, 2008, 09:24:46 AM
Your Webcomic Is Bad had a couple (http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/dresden-codak.html) things (http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/dresden-codak-part-ii.html) to say about dresden codak.

Tripe.


apparently minus is over

Mercifully.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on July 03, 2008, 05:50:16 PM
apparently minus is over

Mercifully.

Gotta agree.  It just has not been the same.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on July 03, 2008, 07:46:55 PM
Classic's been Megatokyo free for a few years now, but takes some kind of strange guilty pleasure from Sam and Fuzzy (http://www.samandfuzzy.com)'s current continuing storyline. The price is right, at least.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 04, 2008, 01:21:23 PM
Classic's been Megatokyo free for a few years now

You too? I stopped reading that after I met Fred Gallagher at CNanime. No reason in particular, I just wanted his autograph for my friend's book.

I have, however, been PVP-free since February.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 04, 2008, 02:20:45 PM
I left Megatokyo back when it still thought it was a humor strip.  I have no idea what it is now.  I'm honestly terrified to find out that it's still alive and mutating.

Left me rephrase that.

 :ohshi~: It's still alive!!!!!
 :serious: And mutating!
 :disapprove:
 :serious: Yes.  I agree.


Also I guess Ramses Luther left again.  Man, he really is a master of leavery.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on July 04, 2008, 07:20:33 PM
I have, however, been PVP-free since February.

You missed him murdering a small child, followed the next day by a mashup of Batman and Lolcats.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on July 04, 2008, 08:00:48 PM
I still read Megatokyo. I suppose I'm a Megatokyo apologist.

But he's doing some shitty ministory thing again right now, and those are pretty lacking in redeeming qualities.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on July 04, 2008, 09:15:18 PM
It's worth noting that I still had Megatokyo bookmarked up until like two or three months ago when it finally reached my I'M NOT EVEN BORED WITH THIS IT'S SO BORING stage.

i still need to find a way to unload the out of print first edition megatokyo book signed by the dude who doesn't work on it any more.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 04, 2008, 09:21:15 PM
isn't that that comic that was about anime nerds being silly but then one guy took over and then it was about a young man coping with pedophilia

what is it about now
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 04, 2008, 09:28:34 PM
I think it's still about that but with lots of retarded subplots.  I dunno, the SA webcomics megathread doesn't even mention it anymore, everyone's so bored with it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on July 04, 2008, 11:35:40 PM
Classic's been Megatokyo free for a few years now, but takes some kind of strange guilty pleasure from Sam and Fuzzy (http://www.samandfuzzy.com)'s current continuing storyline. The price is right, at least.

Sam & Fuzzy isn't brilliant, but it's satisfying enough to keep me coming back. Of any humour strip I can think of, it's the only one that manages to inject Capital-D Drama without becoming completely intolerable.

Also I know the guy who makes it in Real Life, so I have to read it.


As for MegaTokyo, well...

(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/deadpiro.gif)

You may be familiar with my feelings about MegaTokyo.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on July 05, 2008, 02:48:04 AM
Alien loves Predator (http://alienlovespredator.com/index.php): There was a period of non-updates due to like...having a baby or something?  I don't know and I don't care.  I just get mad when my free entertainment isn't brought to me at the promised rate for any reason.  :angry:

The Last Days of FOXHOUND (http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php): At first, the art style bothered me, but it really grew on me after the first dozen or so.  I dunno about skipping out on all of MGS1 though.  I'd have like to see him do that.

The Awesome Adventures of Marty Stu Least I Could Do (http://www.leasticoulddo.com/): Sometimes I wish Rayne would get his shit ruined just because.

Darths & Droids (http://www.darthsanddroids.net/): Because I loved DM of the Rings.

Something*Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/index.html): Where is the love?  Unless it's one of those things where it's like breathing.

Castle Vidcons (http://www.castle-vidcons.com/): I think it's drawn and written by Lyrai because she loves Nintendo with this much ferocity.  :humpf:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 05, 2008, 03:42:47 AM
reading Something Positive is like watching a kid drive a bike into a lamppost, forever.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on July 05, 2008, 04:45:19 AM
That sounds pretty entertaining to me.  Are we talking one of those old time-y solid metal lampposts or those new mostly hollow ones?  I predict either lamppost would give before the kid got tired of it.

 :proceed:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 05, 2008, 10:53:55 AM
The old timey gothic iron ones with the sharp edges.  The kid always hits it such that it drives a wedge into his skull.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on July 05, 2008, 11:21:45 PM
There exists two kinds of webcomics.
Those which I visit because I honestly appreciate them. These include: Achewood, XKCD, Dinosaur Comics, Scary Go Round, and Astronaut Elementary.
There are also comics which I visit out of habit, these include:
Sam and Fuzzy, Anti-hero for Hire, a couple of other Keenspot comics I'm too embarrassed to name, Penny-Arcade, PVP, Three Panel Soul, Dr.McNinja, Questionable Content.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 06, 2008, 12:51:35 AM
The Last Days of FOXHOUND (http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php)

Thanks for eating up two days of my life, prick.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on July 06, 2008, 01:33:36 AM
The Last Days of FOXHOUND (http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php)

Thanks for eating up two days of my life, prick.

 ::3:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on July 06, 2008, 08:29:08 AM
I still can't make up my mind on whether I like XKCD or hate it.  I think it changes strip-to-strip.

Actually, Zara summed it up best.

(http://zarawesome.googlepages.com/threecomic-mine.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 06, 2008, 06:06:22 PM
I discovered Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/) today.

It made me  ::D: until I realized I spent two hours reading comics instead of buying groceries, at which point I  :loser: .
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 06, 2008, 06:25:48 PM
Sometimes xkcd is funny but sometimes it is hella emo. (http://xkcd.com/235/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cannon on July 07, 2008, 11:51:59 AM
I've got nothing. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/108-Webcomics)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 07, 2008, 03:42:15 PM
I've got nothing. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/108-Webcomics)

I stand in awe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on July 07, 2008, 04:29:19 PM
Did I ever tell you guys how I used to go to the same forums as Yahtzee? Yeah! We were basically roommates.

Guys? Isn't that awesome?

...

Guys?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 07, 2008, 04:36:58 PM
Raise your hand if you've never been on the same forum as a pseudo-famous sarcastic gamer from the Internet.

...

(Put your hands down, you idiots.)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on July 07, 2008, 04:59:51 PM
I'm psuedo-famous!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on July 07, 2008, 05:14:50 PM
I discovered Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/) today.

It made me  ::D: until I realized I spent two hours reading comics instead of buying groceries, at which point I  :loser: .

Fuck.  You.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 07, 2008, 05:24:25 PM
 :wat:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on July 08, 2008, 09:12:09 AM
I discovered Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/) today.

It made me  ::D: until I realized I spent two hours reading comics instead of buying groceries, at which point I  :loser: .

Fuck.  You.

YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS, BUGE!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 08, 2008, 10:38:51 AM
i stopped reading when the dragon head set fire to some other head HAHA THAT'S NOT GOD DAMNED FUNNY
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 08, 2008, 01:45:28 PM
I made it 100 comics in and didn't laugh once. I do, however, have a major hard-on for Arachne.




I'm a demographic.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 08, 2008, 02:29:28 PM
See? SEE? At least Rygaron gets it.

 :fuckoff: alla yuz.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on July 08, 2008, 02:50:08 PM
I liked the incompetent lich guy.

That's about it.

EDIT: This might be solely because one of my recurring nightmares is an iron-crowned skeleton who speaks to me with authority in a language I don't understand.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 08, 2008, 02:56:02 PM
i stopped reading when the dragon head set fire to some other head HAHA THAT'S NOT GOD DAMNED FUNNY

Weird, that's exactly where I stopped too.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lobst on July 08, 2008, 03:41:36 PM
I discovered Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/) today.

I'm unqualified to pass judgment on the comic, aside from on the fact that it apparently thinks a cleaned-up pencil sketch qualifies as a finished daily update!  If it was inked, I'd read it.  :\

Anyway, the reason for this post is a Project Wonderful ad on the main page.

(http://boreyoutodeath.com/marvelous/okage.jpg)

 ::D:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on July 08, 2008, 03:51:55 PM
EDIT: This might be solely because one of my recurring nightmares is an iron-crowned skeleton who speaks to me with authority in a language I don't understand.

... did we talk about this at some point? i have vague recollections of you mentioning it, maybe it came up on the boards in the past :V
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on July 08, 2008, 03:53:46 PM
I must have mentioned it in the dreams thread on pyoko some time ago. The thing has been after me for a while now.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on July 08, 2008, 03:54:57 PM
I might also have made it up out of the fact that my brother is stalked in dreams by a serial killer with no face who is known as the Brown Man and another friend is constantly haunted by the cold king of nightmares.

Basically i guess what i'm saying here is i'm Alundra.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on July 08, 2008, 03:55:13 PM
You think i'm joking, don't you?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on July 08, 2008, 04:14:03 PM
I don't know. Who's Alundra?

I mean, who are you?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on July 08, 2008, 06:05:08 PM
I might also have made it up out of the fact that my brother is stalked in dreams by a serial killer with no face who is known as the Brown Man and another friend is constantly haunted by the cold king of nightmares.

Basically i guess what i'm saying here is i'm Alundra.

so when you get home from work do you have to do some annoying puzzle where you use your sword to bounce fireballs off of mirrors into statues? because goddamn that shit must be inconvenient as hell.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on July 08, 2008, 10:22:43 PM
It's better than the fucking ice block pushing puzzles i have to do to get to use the conference rooms.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McFrugal on July 09, 2008, 08:16:02 PM
Cripes, are recurring nightmares really common or something?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: sei on July 09, 2008, 09:00:07 PM
For a good time, ask Friday about the door.  (555-1234)

I think ZedPower's condition goes well beyond commonplace "recurring nightmares," though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Rosencrantz on July 09, 2008, 09:47:21 PM
Cripes, are recurring nightmares really common or something?

I barely remember my dreams at all, let alone have them more than once. Hell, I can only remember two nightmares I've ever had: one when I was four, involving Maria from Sesame Street and a slime monster, and another when I was 15, involving that Snuggles laundry detergent bear (with razor-sharp teeth and a knife).

Maybe these posts should be moved.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 09, 2008, 10:06:41 PM
nah, this thread stinks anyway
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 09, 2008, 10:36:52 PM
Maria from Sesame Street and a slime monster

 :suave:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on July 17, 2008, 08:15:44 AM
Minus could have been so much better (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minuse2.html)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on July 18, 2008, 11:39:57 PM
Minus could have been so much better (http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minuse2.html)

I'm not really sure what to think about that. It kinda freaks my shit right out.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 19, 2008, 04:28:27 AM
Looks like he's doing it in the style of the guy that did the DRR DRR DRR manga.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on July 19, 2008, 08:18:11 PM
It's so much funnier and entertaining than anything else Minus has done.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 20, 2008, 03:08:45 AM
 :pop:  I would have words with you, but I fear they would be wasted!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on July 21, 2008, 08:52:28 PM
I actually enjoyed some of Dresden Codak, up until, you know, shit happened (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_054.html)

Maybe I don't entirely agree with the shredding it's (admittedly) earned, but yeah, I haven't ever fallen in and out of love so quickly. At some point the clever ran right the fuck out and it became bits of a tedious storyline delivered once every month or so. Oddly, around the time they started selling tshirts. It's pretty firmly in my "fuck this shit" box, and that hurts.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on July 21, 2008, 09:07:53 PM
There's a new Perry Bible Fellowship strip (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF247-Catch_Phrase.jpg) up. It's... uh... Hm. It's pretty transparent, isn't it?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 22, 2008, 06:42:33 AM
It's also dissatisfyingly forced :(
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 22, 2008, 07:10:05 AM
PBF is Gurewitch's Gee Golly Jeepers, perchance?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 22, 2008, 08:21:49 PM
people are remembered for the dumb shit that made them popular

gary coleman will be remembered for whatchoo talkin' bout willis

george carlin will be remembered for shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits

and i will be remembered for god damned anus shades
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cannon on July 22, 2008, 09:55:33 PM
I dunno'. Are stupid nerds really that petty?

(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u47/aratiel/conference.gif)

...Okay, ridiculous question. The obvious solution is to either do something even more simple and catchy, or to just deal. :derp:

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McDohl on July 23, 2008, 06:16:37 AM
Those Riker expressions are great.

...with all the Voyager I've been watching recently, I might be falling back in to Trekkie status. ::(:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 23, 2008, 06:23:06 AM
Those Riker expressions are great.

...with all the Voyager I've been watching recently, I might be falling back in to Trekkie status. ::(:

 :gasp: :scanners:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 23, 2008, 05:05:11 PM
Quote
Voyager

Might as well watch a single episide of Hee-Haw on endless loop.

...

Hmmmm, that might actually be kind of funny.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 23, 2008, 05:09:12 PM
The Dresden Codak guy fell from a bike and tore his hands something fierce.

A curse from 4chan? Conspiracy? Space aliens? Future people? You decide.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on July 23, 2008, 05:20:14 PM
It's just an excuse to move his update schedule to yearly.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 23, 2008, 05:46:46 PM
yearly
:kowhyee: no wai
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 30, 2008, 07:16:41 PM
THIS SOME SILENT HILL SHIT, HUH (http://www.wapsisquare.com/d/20080731.html)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on July 30, 2008, 07:17:45 PM
How did you even find out about this? Nobody reads Wapsi Square.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 31, 2008, 07:48:17 AM
Magic: The Gathering? In my webcomics?

It's more likely than you think. (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature2/468a)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 31, 2008, 10:19:42 AM
Visual Basic memory errors?  On the internet?

It's more blah blah
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 31, 2008, 10:49:32 AM
Centipede are in your cat.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on July 31, 2008, 12:53:50 PM
(http://brontoforum.us/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=543;type=avatar)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 31, 2008, 05:15:14 PM
This is relevant to my interests. (http://www.menagea3.net/d/20080731.html)

(Warning: First strip in comic has gay sex.)

(Gay sex is not relevant to my interests.)

(I'M NOT GAY.)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 31, 2008, 05:22:09 PM
Zara, I require a full list of your webcomic bookmarks. As much as I love you, what I see here, you either have very bad taste in comics, or masturbate too regularly to take a break while reading them.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 31, 2008, 05:39:28 PM
Let's check my RSS feed for fap material...

Achewood, no.
Girly, maybe.
Dilbert, no.
See Mike Draw, no.
Dresden Codak, only when Kimi shows up with overalls and nothing underneath.
Erfworld, hydrocephalic fetish is fail.
Goats, no.
Gunnerkrigg Court, I <3 Surma.
Nodwick, no.
Minus, no.
Malfunction Junction, no.
Order of the Stick, no.
Penny Arcade, russian ping pong chick is win.
Scary Go Round, skinny.
Shortpacked, no.
Starslip Crisis, he draws pretty creepy chicks in bikinis.
Questionable Content, maybe.
Nedroid, maybe.
Nobody Scores, no.
PBF, no.
Necessary Monsters, we'll wait and see.
Ugly Hill, no.
XKCD, HURF HURF FERMAT'S THEOREM UNF.
AmazingSuperPowers, no.
Simulated Comic Product, no.
Truck Bearing Kibble, no.
Girl Genius, if only Foglio drew heads less oval.

aaand Rumblo feed and Schlock Mercenary and Zebra Girl. Zebra Girl is fap worthy I suppose.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 31, 2008, 05:45:31 PM
Ventura's pretty hot when her eyes get larger than her head.

Er

'Ventura' is great spicy at time of her eyes becoming more large as her head.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 01, 2008, 08:28:28 PM
Tangentally related to webcomicry (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2485683/Garfield-Minus-Garfield-Cult-web-comic-gets-book-deal.html).

(THAD EDIT: This link is to an article that says that there is a Garfield Minus Garfield print collection coming out, with Jim Davis's support.  Now you don't have to click a link to know what the hell Cthulhu is talking about!)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on August 01, 2008, 10:30:57 PM
That's... pretty awesome.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on August 02, 2008, 03:13:56 AM
eh, I'd prefer the mute garfield one.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on August 02, 2008, 08:28:06 AM
Agreed, I was more referring to the Jim Davis support and lack of corporate lawsuits over it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 02, 2008, 08:33:55 AM
Is not as much surprise when that Jim Davis like the money, and not have a pride, you do the realize.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 02, 2008, 08:34:49 AM
An imagined conversation.
EMPLOYEE: ACK!
DAVIS: Hey! That's pretty cool! Shit!
EMPLOYEE: What? You're not going to sue them into oblivion?
DAVIS: FUCK NO! I'm not a total prick like that Scott Adams guy!
EMPLOYEE: Are you sure you want to go on record for that sir?
DAVIS: Why? What can the pissant sue me for?
EMPLOYEE: Perhaps some kind of fraud, sir?
DAVIS: ...
EMPLOYEE: I-It is a joke?
DAVIS: Clean out your desk.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on August 02, 2008, 09:26:36 AM
Is not as much surprise when that Jim Davis like the money, and not have a pride, you do the realize.

Most rich people lack that kind of logic, I'm just glad he does.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on August 02, 2008, 10:25:45 AM
That's always been Davis's thing.  He's a brilliant marketing dude, and has been carefully milking Garfield for decades to maximize the money flow.  Merchandise that's too popular gets cancelled, to prevent oversaturation, that sort of thing.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: MadMAxJr on August 02, 2008, 08:50:39 PM
Wow.. He's not suing him and sending garfield-suit wearing secret police enforcers to his house.  I am impressed.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on August 03, 2008, 11:14:05 AM
garfield-suit wearing secret police enforcers

you can escape if you only run on Mondays
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on August 03, 2008, 11:19:58 AM
Or supply massive lasagna kickbacks.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 03, 2008, 01:14:30 PM
I am beaten also if great pasta kicks!!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on August 03, 2008, 08:18:43 PM
Huh. I didn't notice that the Rice Boy guy had started on his next project (http://riceboy.jho-tan.com/order/index.html).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 03, 2008, 09:17:43 PM
Oh wow. Kate Beaton is pretty awesome. She actually made me glad I visited Dresdon Codak.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 03, 2008, 09:38:12 PM
I thought I already linked to Kate Beaton here?

Hers is basically the only webcomic I am reading, besides 3PS (for the art) and GYWO (for the sweet sweet bitterness).

EDIT: Oh yeah and gone with the blastwave, but he updates less frequently than ice ages come and go, so that doesn't really count, now does it?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 03, 2008, 11:30:25 PM
Hmmmm...

Rice Boy is one of the nicer online creations I've read in a long time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on August 07, 2008, 08:43:12 AM
I've been reading this shit since middle school, but goddamn, Sluggy Freelance sure has been sucking a lot as of late.

Maybe it's because I don't like Harry Potter and I haven't played WoW in months, but it's like PARODY PARODY PARODY these days.  WHAT THE FUCK PETE I WANT TO SEE TORG AND AYLEE GET IT ON THE ADVANCEMENT HERE.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on August 07, 2008, 10:28:12 AM
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh did you seriously just notice that sluggy freelance is nothing but shitty parodies
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 07, 2008, 10:29:11 AM
On the flipside, I absolutely hate it when he acts like he's got this super-important ongoing saga about nearsighted demons and evil balloon fetishists going on, and much prefer it when he brings on the funny.

Long-runners like Pete manage to survive by selectively ignoring people like you and me.  It's true for pretty much all of them except Lesnick, who seems to somehow be powered by his insatiable desire for attention.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on August 07, 2008, 11:37:22 AM
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh did you seriously just notice that sluggy freelance is nothing but shitty parodies

Oh god no.  I pretty much stop reading when the Harry Potter parodies up and check back every month to see if it's over.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on August 07, 2008, 03:05:01 PM
Long-runners like Pete manage to survive by selectively ignoring people like you and me. 

Isn't that the same as 'Appealing to a niche'?

Lesnick, unlike most webcomic artists, seems seriously interested in improving his own craft. That's a thing to respect.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on August 07, 2008, 03:16:47 PM
And if that doesn't work out, just draw your characters naked.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 07, 2008, 05:04:38 PM
Long-runners like Pete manage to survive by selectively ignoring people like you and me. 

Isn't that the same as 'Appealing to a niche'?

 :wat: Are you from Bizarro world or something?

Quote
Lesnick, unlike most webcomic artists, seems seriously interested in improving his own craft. That's a thing to respect.

Oh, you really are.  I agree then.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 07, 2008, 10:50:32 PM
Howard's mention of chupaquesos in the latest liner notes reminded me of why I started reading Schlock Mercenary in the first place.  Of course, to date, I still haven't tried making one.

Someday.

Someday when I have my own fucking kitchen again.   :sadpanda:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McFrugal on August 08, 2008, 07:02:41 PM
I grow fonder of Schlock Mercenary as time goes on.  It seems as though many of his story arcs are giant lead-ins to something either really cool or really interesting.  See: Exotic Dark Matter aliens, and the Phoenix Project.  I'm just glad that he keeps the strip entertaining on the way to the awesome, and somehow manages at the same time to keep an overarching plot that believably connects pretty much every recent major event.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 08, 2008, 08:17:56 PM
I have to admit that today's Sluggy combined with yesterday is one of the best WoW parodies I've ever seen.  Dunno if it's 4 years too late or not, but in 4 more years I'd better see people on WoW screaming "Fucking pirate cut off my balls!"
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on August 08, 2008, 08:49:19 PM
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh did you seriously just notice that sluggy freelance is nothing but shitty parodies

Oh god no.  I pretty much stop reading when the Harry Potter parodies up and check back every month to see if it's over.
The comic is more than 50% parody by volume. This is going back to the first story arc, here.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: EmaWii on September 01, 2008, 07:41:32 PM
 :slow:

I know this is super old, but I did a search and nothing came up for Sexy Losers (http://sexylosers.com/). My roommate just showed me yesterday. Unfortunately, it's really easy to whip through all of them, and it's not being updated regularly anymore. Last strip was in March... *sniff*

Anyhow, it's definitely a good selection if you feel like seeing lots of 'toons splooge saying, "That is so wrong!" while dabbing laugh-tears out of your eyes.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on September 01, 2008, 08:14:39 PM
Sexy Losers was big when I first got here. Five years ago.

Five...

 :ohshi~:

Oh, incidentally, I have just discovered John Campbell's pictures for sad children. (http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com) It resembles Achewood in that it is not often laugh-out-loud funny, but still satisfying overall. It also resembles Cat and Girl in that it ventures into "depressing, intellectual" territory. I like.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on September 01, 2008, 08:18:26 PM
The differences between those comics being that pictures for sad children hates you.  And it mostly hates you because you're sitting there reading the comic that it hates you for reading.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Dooly on September 01, 2008, 09:37:11 PM
Man, I'd thought Sexy Losers stopped at #244.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 02, 2008, 10:30:18 PM
For a strip that's featured a man snapping his own skull and a fairly graphic depiction of "cowboy sauce", today's Achewood managed to set a new standard for making me queasy.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: EmaWii on September 02, 2008, 11:01:01 PM
Man, I'd thought Sexy Losers stopped at #244.

Yay, I was useful after all.

Oh, incidentally, I have just discovered John Campbell's pictures for sad children. (http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com) It resembles Achewood in that it is not often laugh-out-loud funny, but still satisfying overall. It also resembles Cat and Girl in that it ventures into "depressing, intellectual" territory. I like.

Not at all incidentally, I have just discovered Pictures for Sad Children. I, however, have been cracking up almost the entire time I have been reading it. Maybe I am just in a lol-ing mood.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McDohl on September 03, 2008, 03:02:52 AM
One comic I miss is one that Roger showed me, Counter Culture.  It was a big hit with my buddies for some reason, and I enjoyed it, and it vanished off the face of the internets.

...I haven't checked archive.org yet.  strange of me.

edit: yaaaaaaaay (http://counterculture.comicgenesis.com/d/001.html) :victory:
No longer updated, but it's still funny.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on September 05, 2008, 11:17:01 PM
http://sarahzero.com/index.html

I barely know what the fuck this .. thing is, but it's fun to look at just the same.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: on September 06, 2008, 02:07:41 AM
(http://www.vgcats.com/ffxi/images/080905.jpg)

KAZZ HOW COME YOU NEVER TOLD US YOU PLAYED FF11
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Saturn on September 06, 2008, 03:49:43 AM
people still read vgcats?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 06, 2008, 04:00:24 AM
http://sarahzero.com/index.html

I barely know what the fuck this .. thing is, but it's fun to look at just the same.

no.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on September 06, 2008, 09:21:24 AM
Quote from: Niku's link
"waycist"
>:(


>:(


>:(
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 06, 2008, 11:50:28 AM
Having just read the last two comics up on VGCats, I gotta say if Scott wants to stop, right now would be the ideal time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McFrugal on September 11, 2008, 09:08:52 PM
Oh, hey, that big plot thing in Dresden Codak is over now.

Isn't an ending supposed to wrap up the plot, instead of just showing you something weird and assuming you know what happened?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 11, 2008, 09:40:28 PM
 :shrug:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on September 11, 2008, 09:46:31 PM
Anime's set a bad, bad precedent, I'll say that much.  :justasplanned:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on September 12, 2008, 02:29:32 PM
I know what I'm yelling the next time I see an extraneous apostrophe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: sei on September 12, 2008, 03:44:41 PM
"SHIT, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT 'S COULD CONTRACT X HAS!"
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 12, 2008, 06:30:37 PM
...I spent all day wondering what the fuck you were talking about, Fredward.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on September 12, 2008, 06:58:53 PM
I still don't know.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on September 12, 2008, 08:35:31 PM
I'll help y'all out. (http://achewood.com/)

But we should probably link to (or at least mention) what we're talking about in the initial post, as fun as it is to confuse half the boards.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on September 13, 2008, 08:13:35 AM
spoilsport
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on September 13, 2008, 10:52:06 AM
Way to make me even more paranoid than usual. :humpf:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 15, 2008, 05:16:22 PM
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b149/Rygaron/angrywithrage-1.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b149/Rygaron/angrywithrage.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b149/Rygaron/awr.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b149/Rygaron/theend.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 15, 2008, 06:12:04 PM
he's dead inside.  you can see the point where his soul was forcefully extracted.


edit:  page breaks!!!! :MENDOZAAAAA:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 17, 2008, 09:22:14 PM
Looking For Group's total lack of subtlety is a joy sometimes.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on September 18, 2008, 05:00:26 AM
I hope Lar and Sohmer tone Richard's genre-savvy down before he turns into Deadpool.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on September 18, 2008, 02:38:24 PM
I don't think Deadpool is quite as bad as Richard is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 26, 2008, 10:18:12 PM
You know, if we wanted to, I bet we could hit the top of Google for "commodore sex act" pretty easily.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on September 29, 2008, 09:42:26 PM
Entirely possible.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 29, 2008, 09:44:29 PM
Sooo... do we call you Scott Commodore Sex Act II now, or Commodore Scott Sex Act II?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on September 29, 2008, 09:48:05 PM
Whatever you want if you'll shop me the Commodores fucking a C64.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on October 03, 2008, 02:25:17 AM
I'm not sure how necessary it is to point out when Penny-Arcade is awesome, but dang. "Fuck you. Go to jail." (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/3/)

:perfect:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McFrugal on October 03, 2008, 05:13:59 AM
So where did serializer.net go off to?  It's been missing for over a week now.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on October 03, 2008, 06:32:22 AM
It's worth noting that today's Freak Angels (http://www.freakangels.com/?p=59) is probably the best one yet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on October 04, 2008, 06:18:04 AM
Okay, can VGCats end now? Please?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on October 04, 2008, 06:29:41 AM
You could stop reading it. I mean, it's not mandatory, but it is a possibility.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 04, 2008, 08:27:17 AM
It's pretty much like The Simpsons at this point.  There's like 20 perfect places to have bowed out gracefully back there, but he just refuses to stop driving it into the ground.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: MadMAxJr on October 08, 2008, 07:06:38 PM
NerfNow (http://nerfnow.com/comic/67) just won videogame context jokes as far as I am concerned.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 08, 2008, 07:18:00 PM
...it took me about 3 minutes to make the logical leap necessary to get that one.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on October 08, 2008, 07:20:07 PM
What is a man the joke? :wakka:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 08, 2008, 10:12:04 PM
Hmm.  Going through past Girl Genius pages as I am wont to do, I noticed something kind of weird on this one. (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081001)

"Eye of the Snake Eater"?  You think that's intentional?  Probably not since, AFAIK, Phil and Kaja are either oblivious to or not in the habit of referencing the vidjagames.  Still, humorous.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on October 09, 2008, 01:20:00 PM
They could be making a different reference...

(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/realsnakeeater.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on October 09, 2008, 05:56:58 PM
My cousin lives in an apartment right above Lorenzo Lamas. He planned to hum tunes from Grease if they ever passed in the halls.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on October 09, 2008, 06:23:38 PM
My cousin lives in an apartment right above Lorenzo Lamas. He planned to hum tunes from Grease if they ever passed in the halls.

Now he can just play the Snake Eater theme really loud.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 18, 2008, 08:37:38 PM
I like how Schlock Mercenary's Tagon just started getting drawn with lines in his forehead in the past few strips, which incidentally are about his having a mid-life crisis.

Is there some trope out there that's the equivalent of "bringing attention to your a character's age suddenly makes them acquire older/younger features"?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 25, 2008, 08:07:09 PM
SPOILER: Apparently the spontaneous appearance of the wrinkle is a plot point.  That, or more people than I have brought it up.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on October 25, 2008, 11:37:48 PM
I'm pretty sure this whole Tagon age thing is caused by Howard himself feeling the weight of the years (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/27/stamina-fail-parenting-win/).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on October 25, 2008, 11:46:43 PM
Howard works with a two or three week buffer, so it's unlikely he was answering to fan issues.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 26, 2008, 12:38:19 AM
Tagon's been arguing with his dad for about two weeks now, though.

...

Man, this arc really is self-serving.  If Tagon ends up with a sex robot for a girlfriend I'm out of here.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on October 26, 2008, 01:10:54 AM
Wait, wait. I thought Kevyn was the self-insert, not Tagon.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 26, 2008, 01:13:25 AM
...oh, right.  I'm out of here.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on October 26, 2008, 08:13:02 AM
Both can be.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 29, 2008, 05:22:03 PM
RPG World was finished?  A year ago?  How'd I miss that for a year?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on October 29, 2008, 05:25:46 PM
... wait, finished as in "he went back and did the rest of it"?  'cause i thought that strip had been dead for like four years.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 29, 2008, 05:30:06 PM
Finished as in "he unceremoniously killed off the party", but yes.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on October 29, 2008, 05:49:42 PM
no even that was just a side comic

not that i would blame any a dude for dropping whatever shit was on his plate to go work on venture bros, but still.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on October 29, 2008, 07:43:40 PM
You know, I honestly did not see this coming.
This says something for the tenacity of webcomics on the net, I suppose.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on October 31, 2008, 08:27:54 PM
It just occurred to me that the aging storyline was supposed to be the yearly horror storyline.

Seriously?  Seriously.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on October 31, 2008, 09:36:15 PM
...that it is. Wow.

It even has the Schlocktoberfest title on October 1st. Huh.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 14, 2008, 10:11:40 AM
I keep reading Gunnerkrigg Court, and I feel like I'm doing myself a huge disservice.  It's not that the plot moves at a snails pace, or that the dialogue is forced and joyless most of the time.  It's that the entire thing feels like a self-insertion fanfic of the writer's own work.

Sure, there appears to be a bunch of unspoken, ill-defined rivalries and conflicts between multiple factions, but the passionless, near cypher of a main character can get through them all simply by doing and saying nothing.  Why, why do I read this?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 14, 2008, 10:18:17 AM
Because she forgot to wear trousers?
Also it is free and in your bookmarks?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 14, 2008, 11:06:02 AM
She's not "passionless", she just doesn't demonstrate her feelings much. If you want OUTPOURINGS OF INNER ANGST I understand Megatokyo still updates occasionally.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 14, 2008, 11:18:48 AM
One of the few webcomics I actually stopped reading in spite of it being free and apparently from someone who could draw.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zach on November 14, 2008, 11:54:18 AM
I've found that the best way to read Gunnerkrigg Court is to forget about it for a week or two. Then when I remember how much I like it, I can return and find that something has happened plotwise as well as character interactionially.

On the other hand, one of the reasons I was initially attracted to it was Antimony's stilted conversation patterns. This friendship with Kat is making her far too normal! 

::D:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on November 14, 2008, 12:01:06 PM
One of the few webcomics I actually stopped reading in spite of it being free and apparently from someone who could draw.

Are you saying Fred Gallagher can draw? I mean, I stopped reading it in 2003 so he might have gotten lessons or something.

Although, to be fair, he probably should have gone for a fiction writing workshop first. From what I recall, he had a lot of time on his hands in between pages, so it wouldn't have made a difference.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 14, 2008, 12:31:32 PM
I found something called The Phoenix Requiem (http://requiem.seraph-inn.com/) and I am pretty sure I like it. Although the plot seems a cross between Lovecraft Lite and a romance novel, would you look at that art and she gets about five pages a week of that. Apparently it's not the cartoonist's first comic and she completed her last one, but I haven't bothered checking it out yet.

Also: GUN SHOW (http://gunshowcomic.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 14, 2008, 03:25:30 PM
She's not "passionless", she just doesn't demonstrate her feelings much. If you want OUTPOURINGS OF INNER ANGST I understand Megatokyo still updates occasionally.

I don't want "OUTPOURING OF INNER ANGST", I just want her to react to things like robots, talking wolves, ghosts, demons, dragons, possession, assassination, etc like an actual human being might.  Not in terribly derivative dialogue designed to make her the coolest cucumber on Earth.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 14, 2008, 03:57:28 PM
Extremely reserved main characters are not very common. Just for variety's sake, I like that she is not constantly commenting on how strange and/or surprising everything around her is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 14, 2008, 04:00:48 PM
I think the main problem isn't that the girl doesn't comment, but doesn't react.  At all.  To the point where she's less a protagonist and more a walking plot device that mechanically keeps the narrative moving forward, nothing more.

I never read the damned thing, though.  I just get that impression from skimming.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on November 14, 2008, 04:02:50 PM
Extremely reserved main characters are not very common.

(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/cast1-34.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 14, 2008, 07:45:40 PM
"I forgot to put in a character that says 'Guys, this is a bad idea' at every junction." -- Tom Siddell
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on November 14, 2008, 08:28:25 PM
They live in a boarding school for magical robots.

Do you think they ought to wander down the halls every day being surprised at everything?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 14, 2008, 10:31:31 PM
Extremely reserved main characters are not very common.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmotionlessGirl
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on November 14, 2008, 10:54:37 PM
:painful: The Splash Woman storyline @ Nerf Now (http://nerfnow.com/comic/68) has left me traumatized, spiteful, and turned on.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 14, 2008, 11:01:44 PM
Extremely reserved main characters are not very common.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmotionlessGirl
I said "reserved," not "gloomy" or "a robot." The better article to disabuse me of this delusion would be The Stoic (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStoic).

:painful: The Splash Woman storyline @ Nerf Now (http://nerfnow.com/comic/68) has left me traumatized, spiteful, and turned on.
How is that different from normal?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 15, 2008, 03:20:14 AM
She's not "passionless", she just doesn't demonstrate her feelings much. If you want OUTPOURINGS OF INNER ANGST I understand Megatokyo still updates occasionally.

I don't want "OUTPOURING OF INNER ANGST", I just want her to react to things like robots, talking wolves, ghosts, demons, dragons, possession, assassination, etc like an actual human being might.  Not in terribly derivative dialogue designed to make her the coolest cucumber on Earth.

Why should she be overly reactive to these things?  She practically grew up (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=338) with incarnations of death (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=342).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on November 15, 2008, 07:45:13 AM
i go to take a nap and when i get back zara is defending gunnerkrigg court

i will assume i am being trolled
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on November 15, 2008, 07:49:47 AM
(actually i just remembered that zara said he reads wapsi square)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 15, 2008, 08:14:40 AM
I am sorry that I do not live up to your sophisticated standards of webcomicry norondor
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on November 15, 2008, 08:22:00 AM
You know, i don't ask for much, zara
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 15, 2008, 10:39:37 AM
I like that she is not constantly commenting on how strange and/or surprising everything around her is.
"I forgot to put in a character that says 'Guys, this is a bad idea' at every junction." -- Tom Siddell
Do you think they ought to wander down the halls every day being surprised at everything?
Why should she be overly reactive to these things?

Not that I particularly care one way or another about a comic I don't read, but I can't take this shit anymore.

All of you.

 :strawman:
 :strawman:
 :strawman:
 :strawman:

Seriously.

Who's asking for constantly-shocked character who spends every waking moment acting confused and scared?  Nobody.  Go find where somebody asked for that.  What Constantine's bitchfest is about is the fact that your honey's reaction to everything - everything - is to stare half-lidded at it.  That's every bit as redundant as constantly gasping, screaming or whining, only it's so cool so some people don't seem to mind.

You can come out and say that you love the fact that she's literally unflappable, that's fine.  But Godsakes stop with this bullshit "oh this is what you're saying" counterargument.  You guys are better than that.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 15, 2008, 11:00:02 AM
You guys are better than that.
You're saying you haven't been paying attention, Brentai?

I'm not really sure what people are bitching about. The central characters are interesting enough to be a 1 or 2 minute distraction every-other weekday. Or, more likely, a fun, wasted half-hour over after two or three months.

Though I suppose my real criteria are just: Be different; Don't be annoying. Given the fair numbers of webcomics I read.

It may also help that I've (by some black magick?) skipped over basically everything by Neil Gaiman.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 15, 2008, 07:45:19 PM
words

How is what I said a strawman when I provided direct evidence for why she's more or less (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=469) unflappable?  Besides which, I like Kat and Zimmy better than Antimony, anyways.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 15, 2008, 08:09:35 PM
You seriously don't understand?  Fine.  Lesson time.

Constantine says, "I don't like that the main character never reacts to anything.  She should show a normal level of surprise."
You say, "Why should she show a higher than normal level of surprise?"

That's the very definition of Strawman Argument: to present your opponent's views as more extreme than they really are.  Not that I necessarily agree with Constantine (I manage to care less the longer this discussion goes on) but when I see four different responses using the same brand of bullshit and Thad's not around to abuse the emoticon, I have to say something.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 15, 2008, 08:21:57 PM
I suppose I chose the wrong wording, however my point was she shouldn't be particularly shocked at the goings on of Gunnerkrigg because she grew up with weird shit to begin with.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on November 15, 2008, 08:40:08 PM
Perhaps, but an extremely basic rule of creative work is that contrast is important.

Every character who is in some way recognisable as a character will have some things that shock them. Or problems beyond their abilities. An extreme is fine, so long as you have something to show how extreme that extreme is. Similarly, you can paint a picture of a giant robot, the biggest robot ever, but without people or buildings or XBoxes or something to denote scale, it's meaningless. It doesn't matter if the creator's logic is that "This robot is so fucking huge that at this scale the rest of the universe is just a bland homogenous mass", because this story or artwork or whatever is still intended for consumption by us and unless our primitive monkey brains see those tiny little birds, or spaceships or whatever, we have no frame of reference. Without a frame of reference, the work is meaningless... perhaps a Superman comic circa 1966.

When a writer or artist fails to meet this basic rule all you're ever going to get is a big pile of fail.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 15, 2008, 09:38:37 PM
I think that "a big pile of fail" is a pretty harsh way to put it. I like reading about a character who is capable of remaining calm. And it's not as if it's just that she's never surprised. She's established to be an extremely phlegmatic individual in all circumstances. She had difficulty enjoying a class with Doctor Disaster. That she keeps her cool under most circumstances is one of the reasons I find her an entertaining character to read.

There's an entire ensemble of supporting characters who, between them, are more than capable of establishing how large and surprising the robots are in relation to the skyscrapers. It shouldn't just fall to the main character to do that, and in this case it doesn't.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 15, 2008, 09:58:07 PM
So making a story about an average joe thrust into a magical world beyond his ken isn't the only kind of fantasy story there is?

The core cast does not have to be surprised about things that the reader will be surprised by? You do not need a character to be surprised along with the readers?

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 15, 2008, 10:07:02 PM
There's nothing wrong with an unflappable character (THE UNSTOPPABLE HIGGS!!!... except in the end he always loses it).  I just personally find this Antimony chick a little boring.  Mainly because she has a permanent uninterested expression plastered to her face, and it makes it hard to care about what's going on when the main character doesn't seem to.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 15, 2008, 10:10:04 PM
Hints throughout the series suggest you'd detest a story about her father even more. Maybe that's where she gets it from?

I guess I'm willing to count what I should interpret as being half-lidded as just having eyes that are most comfortable half-sealed. My eyes can be like that, and so can a fair number of my family members's.
I was often told I looked very high throughout most of pre-real-school.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 15, 2008, 10:14:52 PM
profoundly
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 15, 2008, 10:14:58 PM
mentally
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 15, 2008, 10:15:03 PM
retarded
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on November 16, 2008, 06:10:38 AM
Anytime a character or plot must be defended in arguments outside the story, it is an indication - on some level - of a failure on the part of the author.

It's like all the people making arguments about how such-and-such in the Star Wars prequels wasn't badly written, oh no, that was The Will Of The Force it simply had to happen that way.

The problem with such assertions is that they are pure conjecture AND a gross violation of Occam's razor. The absence of anything to contradict these 'defenses of the author' does not make them true. Sometimes you really are reading something trashy. Admit you enjoy it and move on. Or, conversely, stop pretending it's well-written if it isn't.

Anyway, in the few strips I've seen, she doesn't seem so much 'inflappable' as, 'drawn with the same face in every panel'.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on November 16, 2008, 06:15:07 AM
I guess I'm willing to count what I should interpret as being half-lidded as just having eyes that are most comfortable half-sealed.

(http://www.confessions123.com/blog/jughead.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 16, 2008, 07:13:38 AM
Here's an exercise for Gunnerkrigg's Court:  Read through the strips and remove all of Antimony's dialogue.  Realize that suddenly she's become Gordon Freeman.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 16, 2008, 08:40:28 AM
Anytime a character or plot must be defended in arguments outside the story, it is an indication - on some level - of a failure on the part of the author.

Whenever someone disagrees with me, it proves my point.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 16, 2008, 09:23:42 AM
when you start echoing a specific tenet of guildenstern you really need to take a good long look in the mirror and try to pinpoint the exact moment you became really fat
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on November 16, 2008, 09:53:02 AM
Seriously guys, I'd like to think that we can agree that Randomname Court ain't no Watchmen. Hell, it's no third-string X-title.

But if you want to call out what's-his-face as an up-and-coming Neil Gaiman, hey, be my guest. I'm not here to police your tastes.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 17, 2008, 12:54:14 AM
Come to think of it, almost everything I read would probably do better consumed in larger samples.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 17, 2008, 05:31:37 AM
Things (http://www.horribleville.com) are afoot in Horribleville.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on November 17, 2008, 05:47:51 AM
KATE BEEEEEEAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:victory:

I know it's just a guest appearance/joke, but still.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Guild on November 17, 2008, 11:23:53 AM
when you start echoing a specific tenet of guildenstern you really need to take a good long look in the mirror and try to pinpoint the exact moment you became really fat

I think Zara's saying that a comic (or any art) is more than the sum of its parts; the existential exercises art puts the mind through are occasionally part of the design. Whether or not it's true in this particular comic's case, I can't say.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 17, 2008, 12:47:39 PM
Actually, I've always felt that if a story can't be comprehended without having to seek outside sources, it does suck.


I'm looking at you, Donnie Darko.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kashan on November 17, 2008, 02:15:23 PM
Actually, I've always felt that if a story can't be comprehended without having to seek outside sources, it does suck.


I'm looking at you, Donnie Darko.

Assuming you're talking about the website info, the director's cut put the website info into the movie without breaking up the narrative. And yeah it's a much better movie for it in my opinion.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 17, 2008, 02:17:39 PM
After reading all the website info and glancing over the bits of "The Philosophy of Time Travel", I actually liked the movie less.  Once the entire purpose of the plot was revealed, then it just became pointless wankery.  The guy was solving a philosophical riddle of his own devising.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kashan on November 17, 2008, 02:20:49 PM
After reading all the website info and glancing over the bits of "The Philosophy of Time Travel", I actually liked the movie less.  Once the entire purpose of the plot was revealed, then it just became pointless wankery.  The guy was solving a philosophical riddle of his own devising.

I'm not sure what you mean here. He needed to kill himself or the universe would explode. I don't remember anything about him being responsible for the situation. I think it just happened.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 17, 2008, 02:21:51 PM
I was talking about the director, Richard Kelly.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kashan on November 17, 2008, 02:47:26 PM
I was talking about the director, Richard Kelly.

Yeah? Well I was talking about your mother. :HUGE:

You see, she's a man.  :gay4:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on November 17, 2008, 02:48:53 PM
So's your face!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 17, 2008, 03:18:14 PM
So was I.  Onssse.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on November 17, 2008, 07:47:57 PM
Funny, while I was watching it for the first time:

(baffled investigators scene)

Me: Maybe it's a plane engine FROM THE FUTURE!

My friend: Actually, it is.

Me: This movie sucks.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on November 17, 2008, 07:56:11 PM
I prefer to interpret the movie as "kid goes batshit insane, kills himself."

It helps to ignore, like, the last ten minutes or so.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 25, 2008, 04:54:39 AM
I wonder if it would be possible to remote control Something Positive just by sending RK Milholland fan letters stating that we'd like him to do the opposite and watching him try to spite us.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on November 27, 2008, 01:22:01 AM
Hey, guys, I'm looking on getting a webcomic out in about a month. What would be the least obnoxious place to host?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on December 09, 2008, 05:28:46 AM
(http://faraiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/internet-dating-2.jpg)

COMEDY
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on December 09, 2008, 05:34:50 AM
It's so funny it brings me to tears.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 10, 2008, 09:02:47 PM
...I really hope that's the actual end of 8-Bit Theater.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on December 10, 2008, 09:27:52 PM
Because then it would end with the same grace and smooth motion that it comported to throughout its life?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 10, 2008, 09:37:34 PM
Close enough.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 12, 2008, 10:45:24 PM
Nuts.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on December 12, 2008, 11:41:15 PM
Silly Brentai. 8-Bit Theater will never end.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on December 17, 2008, 12:38:47 AM
Daaaamn. Sluggy Freelance is finally beginning to get ready to be going somewhere. Too bad it's not actually going anywhere yet. Of course, the massive recapping is pretty much necessary, but I do find myself surprised at how interested I am with what's going on in Dr. Schlock's head. Man I hope the strip lives up to that interest.

In other news, if just the first panel of today's chainsawsuit (http://www.chainsawsuit.com/20081217.shtml) isn't enough to make you laugh then you are probably of reptilian descent.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 17, 2008, 12:55:06 AM
Well he did say about a year ago that he was going to wrap the thing up in about the next five years.  So... four years to go, I guess.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on December 17, 2008, 02:06:28 AM
And only about a year's worth of Harry Potter parodies to go!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on December 17, 2008, 10:22:42 AM
On a vaguely related topic, it looks like a Keenspot advertiser got hit with a exploit.  If you're using IE, or a browser that emulates it like Opera, don't go to any Keenspot comics.  And look for a c:\windows\system32\~.exe file, to see if you're infected.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on December 17, 2008, 11:31:07 AM
don't go to any Keenspot comics

agree.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on December 17, 2008, 01:45:39 PM
I...

:>_>:

I read Soap on a Rope (http://www.soaprope.com/). Like, every day.

I know... There are like only three plot devices reused over and over and over again, since 1997. And they're pretty terrible to begin with.

But (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20081212.html) dammit (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20060810.html), sometimes (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20071130.html) it (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20080123.html) makes (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20080219.html) me (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20080716.html) laugh (http://www.soaprope.com/d/20080915.html).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on December 17, 2008, 04:36:40 PM
In other news, Chris Hasting's party was crashed by Bill Murray (http://drhastings.livejournal.com/58116.html).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on December 19, 2008, 02:40:37 AM
for friday

(http://nedroid.com/imagesb/DK17.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on December 19, 2008, 02:52:06 AM
I've taken a liking to Accursed Dragon (http://www.accurseddragon.com/) (in before oh noes keenspot) for some reason.

Maybe it's that new webcomic smell.

Edit: Link fixed.  Always forget differences between BBC and HTML.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 19, 2008, 03:52:51 AM
You fail at the BBCode.

also at first blush this looks kinda bad.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on December 19, 2008, 07:28:06 PM
Daaaamn. Sluggy Freelance is finally beginning to get ready to be going somewhere. Too bad it's not actually going anywhere yet. Of course, the massive recapping is pretty much necessary, but I do find myself surprised at how interested I am with what's going on in Dr. Schlock's head. Man I hope the strip lives up to that interest.

In other news, if just the first panel of today's chainsawsuit (http://www.chainsawsuit.com/20081217.shtml) isn't enough to make you laugh then you are probably of reptilian descent.

Wait... Sluggy Freelance has a plot?

Wow. I thought it was just a random collection of endless funnies, like a newspaper daily.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on December 19, 2008, 09:27:48 PM
It has... fits of plot, yeah. (I was about to say seizures of plot, but I do believe the strip deserves better.) It's a vast, organic tangle of loose ends at this point, but it sure does look like a bunch of them are going to be tied up, if not now, then at least soon. I hope.

It's like, the main cast is in the middle of two bad guy organizations. There's Hereti-Corp, the technological bads, led by Dr. Schlock, looking for Oasis, and there's the modern day cult to K'Z'K', the demonic bads, looking for... Uh. I think they want to off Zoe or Gwynn so they can return to full power but I honestly don't remember. In any case, it looks like the shit is finally going to hit the fan with the HC side of thing at least, after several years' worth of build-up. So it'll either be awesome or completely terrible.

Ironically, I'm still more interested in Schlock than in anyone else. At first, I didn't much like how he became... whatever he is now, but I've come to dig where Abrams' taking him.

I gotta say though, the strip is pretty much impervious to new readers at this point. Every once in a while I have the errant thought that it might be fun to go through the archives again, but, uh, I kill that idea with the same speed I kill ideas of sticking my hand into a blender.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on December 19, 2008, 09:44:53 PM
You know, I will always hold a grudge against Sluggy Freelance for not being about a detective who is also a slug.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 19, 2008, 10:02:53 PM
I appreciate Sluggy Freelance more than it probably deserves, but I'll be honest and say that this is the first time that I have actually been interested in it since before a certain plot arc that dragged on and on with no apparent relationship to anything else. Whether this is because something awesome is about to happen, or whether it is merely because it is hearkening back to shelved loose ends that I found terribly exciting back in the day, remains to be seen.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on December 19, 2008, 10:49:28 PM
I appreciate Sluggy Freelance more than it probably deserves, but I'll be honest and say that this is the first time that I have actually been interested in it since before a certain plot arc involving rabbits and stick figures in space dragged on and on with no apparent relationship to anything else.

 :perfect:

My personal beef with it is the Torg Potter stuff because I'm not a fan of Harry Potter it generally just comes out of nowhere to fill space that could otherwise we used for something better.

Nice to see the plot seizures actually start picking up again though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 19, 2008, 11:05:09 PM
a certain plot arc that dragged on and on with no apparent relationship to anything else

Yeah, I think you're going to have to be more specific there.  I mean at least three years there was just about nothing but that sort of thing.

Yes, I know, the whole strip is supposed to be that sort of thing.  I mean specifically the years where the entire main cast was trapped in separate alternate dimensions, states of consciousness or college, and a half-year long epic was apparently necessary to get every single one of them back.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 19, 2008, 11:23:58 PM
Looking at the archive thinger, I believe "Oceans Unmoving" was the one that finally compelled me to come back after it had finished. It's the biggest and most irrelevant of the lot.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Envy on December 22, 2008, 06:11:45 AM
Fan boy's has some interesting comics, particularly  this one (http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=288).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 22, 2008, 05:52:41 PM
Going through those archives all in a row, the transition to gag strip is... jarring.  It's like January 2008 is the exact point where the artist loses his fucking mind.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on December 25, 2008, 04:59:25 AM
ugh.

I thought that strip was stupid when I was 12, guys.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on December 25, 2008, 06:28:17 AM
kazz we don't really care what you were thinking last week
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on December 25, 2008, 06:29:59 AM
AND NOBODY EVEN SAID HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 25, 2008, 08:47:19 AM
I DID IT JUST SOUNDED A LOT LIKE "YOU ARE IN THIRD GRADE" FOR SOME REASON
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on December 27, 2008, 01:44:56 PM
Kiskaloo (http://kiskaloo.com/?p=7)

Okay, I haven't even gone through it yet. But you know what? It's a webcomic from the guy who drew Lilo & Stitch. Even if it's not a particularly good read, it'll be fun to look at.

(You'll notice that I linked to the first strip. That's because it took me a few minutes to find it.)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 27, 2008, 02:12:09 PM
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/frodosucks.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on December 29, 2008, 10:19:38 AM
Tim Kreider @ The Pain announces retirement. (http://www.thepaincomics.com/) A nation mourns.

He had alluded to such plans over the past year, and I'll be sending him a donation for holding out until The End.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 01, 2009, 10:48:23 PM
Ahem.

GILGAMESH WULFENBACH INVENTED DONKEY KONG.

That is all.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 01, 2009, 10:49:23 PM
Tarvek was responsible for the Small World ride.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on January 03, 2009, 08:28:37 AM
Chopping Block is back! (http://www.choppingblock.org/)  :victory:

Let's see how long it lasts this time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: SCD on January 09, 2009, 02:49:40 PM
VGCATS advertises one of Zara's games, still fails to make me laugh (http://vgcats.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on January 09, 2009, 05:20:45 PM
The appearance of a new rival (http://dummcomics.com/index?sid=171) for Skadi has caused me to realise that nobody's mentioned DummComics in this thread yet.

So uh... DummComics. (http://dummcomics.com)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on January 09, 2009, 05:21:59 PM
i just assumed that everyone read dummcomics daily

you guys are that savvy, correct?

correct?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 09, 2009, 05:22:47 PM
I mentioned it when it first came out. Though, then I was gushing about 1930 Nightmare Theater, which is still pretty good, but not quite as good as Skadi's become. EDIT: No, apparently I didn't.

Also, it should be mentioned that everybody who works on Dumm also worked on El Tigre -- which is perhaps one of the coolest cartoons to come out in a decade.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on January 09, 2009, 11:14:59 PM
Reading Freakangels this week, I can sympathize with Luke, and this is how I know he is a complete asshole.

What disturbs me is how many people in the forums are defending his passive-aggressive assholery as the work of the One True Hero.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 11, 2009, 08:53:29 AM
For those of you who still read ink comics, today's FoxTrot is pretty funny if you've actually played the Wii version of The Force Unleashed.

...or any version, probably, but the Wii version takes it for expecting you to do this incredible combo sequence with a device that only barely understands "push".
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 11, 2009, 02:25:41 PM
It looks like this might be the final chapter of Girly. (http://girlyyy.com/go/630) Maybe. I don't know. Sure looks like it, though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on February 02, 2009, 09:06:49 PM
Chop Lion. Get Lionsteaks. Demon Planet. (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jchastain/demonplanet/series.php?view=single&ID=122712)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on February 03, 2009, 12:19:50 AM
Chop Lion. Get Lionsteaks. Demon Planet. (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jchastain/demonplanet/series.php?view=single&ID=122712)

Oh my god.

.... Oh my god.


(I got through the part about Lion Man and now am into the Monster Killers bit, and I can't follow what is happening, but it is still good?)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on February 03, 2009, 02:44:14 AM
this isn't even a thing
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on February 04, 2009, 03:43:35 AM
(http://i36.tinypic.com/3167rpj.jpg)

:mahboi: There has never been an unsatisfactory SinFest entry.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on February 04, 2009, 08:35:29 AM
Sinfest is so consistently good that I never have to read it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 18, 2009, 12:09:44 PM
A circle.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Guild on February 19, 2009, 02:47:59 PM
tl:dr if this is a repost sorry, also tl;dr the comic, just this panel, so don't blame me if it's lame (http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/ComicArchive/148.htm)

Demon Planet comic was good until the Lionslayer left for a while, then when he came back it picked up again... entertaining read.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on March 13, 2009, 06:37:09 AM
 :sadpanda: (http://www.uglyhill.com/index.html)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdV4Y56gYM
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on March 15, 2009, 12:41:30 PM
Kate Beaton has a new website!  It has no organization! (http://harkavagrant.com/)

Always loved this panel.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on March 15, 2009, 01:32:59 PM
Does this mean I can delete my link to her livejournal forever now?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zach on March 15, 2009, 01:51:40 PM
Only if you want her to have fewer friends!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on March 15, 2009, 02:57:30 PM
Oh man, oh man, I got to the Horatio Nelson bit, and I peeshitted myself. Oh man.

(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/rap.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 15, 2009, 07:29:42 PM
 :wuv:

That's the one and only LJ I check.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on March 18, 2009, 11:30:03 PM
Penny Arcade's latest pales in comparison to what is reportedly the actual translation of Sci-Fi's new name: "What is this crap?"

That is the shit you cannot make up.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on March 19, 2009, 09:35:53 AM
continuity what (http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuaF7qzWT)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 28, 2009, 08:18:14 AM
This is pretty damn cute (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/thejuzzard/cardboardlife/series.php)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on April 09, 2009, 12:41:01 PM
Holy shit there's a new Gone with the Blastwave (http://blastwavecomic.com/index.php)!

...it's not much but it's something.

...

Part of me wants the hope to finally die, you know? This isn't helping.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on April 09, 2009, 12:58:48 PM
My thoughts exactly.

Though I certainly laughed at the fact that he updated was an April Fool's joke.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on April 12, 2009, 01:23:09 PM
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/Dinosaurs.jpg) (http://www.actionagecomics.com/comics/SolomonStone01a/pages/SS0100.htm)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on April 17, 2009, 06:53:12 AM
R. K. Milholland's biological clock is ticking.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on April 24, 2009, 08:40:21 PM
I've been seeing a lot of this banner for Least I Could Do, lately:

(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa34/disponi/licd.gif)

I can't really express why, but it fills me with such a deep, fierce rage. It's almost like... anything and everything I personally find artistically offensive and wrong is glorified in this banner. I feel like I'm less of a good person by virtue of its very existence -- like somehow looking at it will give me whatever it was that made the asshole who made it think that anything in this banner was in any way acceptable.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on April 24, 2009, 10:19:41 PM
It represents Least I Could Do perfectly, then.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 25, 2009, 05:42:16 AM
I enjoy Least I Could Do and have read it for forever. That said, if you like comics where you will appreciate the author's views through fourth wall breaking comics and (god help you) if you read their little blog things under each comic than no, you will not enjoy LICD even remotely.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on April 25, 2009, 08:35:41 AM
While it's no CAD or Shredded Moose, Least I Could Do is patently horrible, and you're lessened as a human being for reading it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 25, 2009, 05:41:16 PM
While it's no CAD or Shredded Moose,

or Dresden Codak
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lobst on April 25, 2009, 06:41:46 PM
The late title card on the most recent MS Paint Adventure (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6) is breathtakingly impactful!  Think I'll ruin it by linking directly to it (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001982) without context.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Transportation on April 25, 2009, 09:40:13 PM
While it's no CAD or Shredded Moose,

or Dresden Codak
Don't those update regularly, though? Oh come now it's not that bad.

I mean it's pretty sometimes. That's something.
Also why did I feel the need to google what Shredded Moose was? :barf:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on April 26, 2009, 05:47:32 AM
DON'T DO IT!   :ohshi~:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on April 26, 2009, 06:10:35 AM
Good ol' Dresden Codak.  I still read it, even though I'm not sure the guy understands the basic concepts of sequential storytelling.  The first couple of comics he did were pretty entertaining, then for some reason he decided he wanted to make Evangelion, except with a plucky ninja(?) girl who's willing to destroy a civilization because they were mean to the robot that wanted to kill them.  It was after that point that things really got kind of lazy and the plot began to make less sense than it already did.

Also, the art switches between looking good and cramming so much into his space as possible that it ends up resembling the paintings of (http://x66.xanga.com/598b827a5233247895732/b32225086.gif) Louis Wain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain).

Also, he releases more t-shirts and calls to buy his t-shirts than pages in the story.


And today's SMBC:


(http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20090426.gif) (http://"http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1498")
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 07:05:27 AM
Aaron Diaz is shit, his comic is shit, his storytelling skills are shit, his merchandise is shit, it's pretty much shit all around. Kimiko "am i kawaii? uguu~*" Ross is shit also, being a freakish chimaera of Diaz's feeling of cleverness and self-importance, loneliness, and unabashed, naked greed and willingness to pander to his pitiful audience of lame home-schooled nobodies. Did i mention that his fans are shit? They are. I'll have Yyler dig up some amazing quotes he found on Koala Wallop when he gets up, they are a hoot and a half. The best thing you could say about Dresden Codak is that it's a shitty version of A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible, made by an asshole.

In addition to the t-shirts thing, he recently started selling a handbound collection of his Hob strips on his website. It's like 20 pages and costs over $100. The picture of the cover on his site makes it look nice, but it's actually all just covered in blue cloth and looks shitty. Basically Aaron Diaz should die in an oil fire. He sold out of his shitty books, too, because his fans are similarly shitty (see above).


* TL note: kawaii means cute

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on April 26, 2009, 07:21:57 AM
I didn't know you wrote for Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad, Norondor.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 07:35:13 AM
I've disagreed with you about some things in the past, Bill, but i like you a lot, because i genuinely look for the good in people. You're clever and often funny and you obviously like Cromartie High School, which marks you as a gentleman of wealth and taste. I don't personally know Aaron Diaz apart from the things he puts out on the internet, but going by those there's nothing to like about him, just like there's nothing to like about his stinky, horrible webcomic, aimed as it is at retards.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 26, 2009, 07:48:03 AM
The quotes he's talking about are his fans being like "All my life I didn't do well in school and got teased... I relate to Kimiko so much ^_^" or something. Man, I really don't want to look at that forum again. Not only are his fans complete idiots, but he's a complete idiot. You should see the disgusting way he reacts to negative criticism. If you don't like his comic, you don't understand it. Literally if you say he thinks everyone is inferior to him he responds with "stop being so inferior then." (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=548044#548044) Read that whole thread FOR A BARREL OF LAFFS

I don't really want to post in this thread because I come from a webcomics forum where we've all nailed out a pretty solid canon of good webcomics. I'd get into a screaming match with probably almost everyone here if I ever tried to talk to anyone about why the comics they love are bad. So I will just list some things I like and read regularly, some of which I know have been mentioned: Wonderella (http://nonadventures.com/), Unwinder's Tall Comics (http://tallcomics.com/), Perfect Stars (http://www.perfectstars.com/), Married to the Sea (http://marriedtothesea.com/).

I don't read Thinkin' Lincoln very often, but it's actually a good comic most the time. Rice Boy is okay. I kind of have a bias towards a lot of comics because I know how their artist/writer thinks of their comic and it turns out they are fucking retarded (hi, David Malki !).

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on April 26, 2009, 07:56:44 AM
Dresden Kodak is little more than awful fourth-rate fanfiction for a series that was so bad it doesn't even exist. The worst kind of weeaboo self-promotional, self-insertion, wish-fulfillment garbage.

Honestly? Any debate about DK gives it more legitimacy than it deserves.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 08:04:07 AM
man my room got like ten degrees colder when i read that post, IM, good work
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on April 26, 2009, 08:41:09 AM
I liked Dresden Codak. It was... acceptably drawn, had some good design and ideas, and a fanservice-friendly main character. Entertaining stuff. Then it got all I don't really know what the fuck, something stupid.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 26, 2009, 08:53:03 AM
Everyone starts to hate it when he starts selling shirts. That's when he sees his comic as a way to make money and not as a fun diversion from real life. It's all on the internet, you can go read his posts on every webcomic forum. He's disgusting.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on April 26, 2009, 09:03:17 AM
I wasn't saying it's any good, just that if you want to convince people that something is shit, there are better ways to go about it than just saying over and over again that it is bad and that everybody who likes it is stupid.

I was insulting Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad more than anything else. I hate that website. It's like: congratulations! You have successfully identified that shit stinks. And then you wrote five pages about the fact that it is stinky. It more resembles an exercise in the impressive number of ways that the writers can say "this is a bad comic" before they start repeating themselves, than any kind of actual (and well-deserved) criticism.

Then again, it's been a while since I read it. Maybe it's gotten better.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on April 26, 2009, 09:10:02 AM
YWIBAYSFB has not updated in like a year

but a week or two ago my RSS feeds started screwing up and gave me a bunch of posts from like a year ago

my hopes were cruelly risen only to be dashed most expertly
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on April 26, 2009, 09:15:48 AM
Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad would also provide valid criticism and point out the flaws in a work.  The problem is he would also get super angry and go on and on about how much he didn't like a webcomic.  I can't work up the energy to hate a webcomic and its audience just because it sucks.  I also have a bad habit of reading a webcomic long after I get bored or disinterested in it.  I still read Sluggy Freelance for like 3 years after I'd stopped caring.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 26, 2009, 09:48:57 AM
Re: YWiBaYSFB:
Each paragraph has a sentence that explains why the comic / author is horrible using actual well represented facts. Every other sentence in each paragraph is cursing, calling it / them a retard, or saying how they're afraid the author would actually try to have them killed.

Re: Dresden Kodak:
I loved the unholy shit out of it when each comic was a stand-alone. It was pretty, made me laugh, and hinted at heavy transhumanist seasonings. Then he tried to do the story and I realized that he had no fucking idea what transhumanism is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Transportation on April 26, 2009, 10:02:28 AM
Hahaha oh wow. I mean the warning signs were there when I still bothered to read his forum but damn.

I thought the latest one was ok, though :shrug:. I distinctly remember him saying he'll continue the bullshit Hob-style nonsense; so, I'll probably end up avoiding it intentionally as opposed to the current apathy.

Also pretend the author doesn't exist so as not to ruin it. And turn on all the ad blocking software. Everyone wins!

Re: YWiBaYSFB:
Each paragraph has a sentence that explains why the comic / author is horrible using actual well represented facts. Every other sentence in each paragraph is cursing, calling it / them a retard, or saying how they're afraid the author would actually try to have them killed.

Re: Dresden Kodak:
I loved the unholy shit out of it when each comic was a stand-alone. It was pretty, made me laugh, and hinted at heavy transhumanist seasonings. Then he tried to do the story and I realized that he had no fucking idea what transhumanism is.

While we're on that, the singularity only refers the invention of an AI and nothing else. But that misconception's mostly Kurzweil's fault, though. That and the common idea that evolution is exponential progress and not just adaption that is neither progressive or regressive. I could go on.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on April 26, 2009, 10:14:32 AM
the singularity only refers the invention of an AI and nothing else.

What?  No it doesn't.  It refers specifically to the exponential increase in technological progress, and that if this trend were to continue it would reach a point beyond which no further predictions could be made, as technologies would presumably build upon each other in a run-away fashion.  AIs are certainly presumed to be a part of this, but are not required.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 26, 2009, 10:22:02 AM
the singularity only refers the invention of an AI and nothing else.
You're confusing the Kurzweil Misconception with the Dresden Kodak Misconception, which is that the singularity is "LOL ROBOTS LET'S ALL KILL OURSELVES NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE BETTER!" Kurzweil described the singularity as a point where technological advances that directly effect the body reach an apex in which completely natural and completely robotic are more-or-less the same thing. The actual singularity is what Cthulhu said.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Transportation on April 26, 2009, 10:33:03 AM

What?  No it doesn't.  It refers specifically to the exponential increase in technological progress, and that if this trend were to continue it would reach a point beyond which no further predictions could be made, as technologies would presumably build upon each other in a run-away fashion.  AIs are certainly presumed to be a part of this, but are not required.

No, the point of the singularity is not ever increasing technological complexity. The point is that a non-human superintelligent entity will come into existence and therefore making the future impossible to predict. Science fiction currently predicts semi-accurately what normal humans would do with widely advanced technology.

This is the core concept: a non-human superintelligence is required for it to be truly unpredictable.

It is entirely possible for there to be a dark age or a drop in technology in some areas and still create an AI. All you need is computers and sufficiently clever programmers. This is why the exponential technological growth idea is invalid. It is not a necessary condition, merely a probable side effect.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on April 26, 2009, 10:34:49 AM
I still keep Dresden Codak in my RSS aggregator because: it only pollutes the listings about once a month (out of over a hundred items each day) and there's always the off-chance that it will be more Rupert and Hubert, and even if it's not, it'll at least be pretty.

I am always on the lookout for more comics. I have a strong tolerance for mediocrity, since the cost of reading is so low; about the only thing I don't have a stomach for is when politics creeps into ordinarily apolitical comics. So keep those suggestions coming, people! I demand it.

In return I offer you The Princess Planet (http://www.theprincessplanet.com/), which is ten times your recommended daily allowance of puns and other wordplay.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Transportation on April 26, 2009, 11:05:54 AM
In addition to the t-shirts thing, he recently started selling a handbound collection of his Hob strips on his website. It's like 20 pages and costs over $100. The picture of the cover on his site makes it look nice, but it's actually all just covered in blue cloth and looks shitty. Basically Aaron Diaz should die in an oil fire. He sold out of his shitty books, too, because his fans are similarly shitty (see above).
Why did you not mention the part where he made $8750 in a single day off of that thing?

I feel this would've helped your case.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 11:15:06 AM
God should probably kill Aaron Diaz
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 26, 2009, 11:58:51 AM
Also pretend the author doesn't exist so as not to ruin it. And turn on all the ad blocking software. Everyone wins!

No, you can't do this. It's foolish to say that there is no relationship between the consumer and the artist, because there is in every medium. In webcomics it is even moreso; look at all these artists with Twitters and forums and whatever. You have this constant feed of what the author is doing in front of you--every webcomic has a news section. You look at comics where that's nonexistant and you find they aren't popular. Part of the excuse for webcomics being by and large shitty is that you're also getting a look at the creative process or some insight on the joke/storyline or whatever. Besides this, you have to look at authorial intent in anything creative to analyze it as art, which is exactly what Aaron Diaz wants you to do. If you aren't enjoying his comic, he doesn't care about you, and to enjoy it you have to analyze it and him and his intent.

This is bad because his author/consumer relationship consists of "I PROVIDE, YOU ACCEPT". And if you don't accept, well, HE'S DOING THIS FOR FREE AND NEVER ASKED ANYONE FOR MONEY AND DOESNT EVEN MAKE ANY MONEY. SO YOU BETTER JUST ACCEPT IT. NO CRITICISM. UNDERSTAND? I BET YOU DONT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT I TALK ABOUT. (Except he has asked for money on several occasions: when his basement flooded and ruined the set he was building, when he fell off his bike and hurt his hand, before he moved, after he moved--the list goes on.) Take a look at these three posts (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=547621#547621) between Aaron and some dude named ysqure3: he's got a ridiculous superiority complex and won't take criticism. (ysqure3 spends most of that thread trying to find ways to make the comic better, not badmouthing it.) Here's an example of him making that idea pretty blatant again. (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=536799#536799) Aaron Diaz is an honest to god tool.

People seem to have turned on him once he started making shirts. Why? He began to treat the comic like a business rather than fun.
Take a look at this post (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=527857#527857) from when he quit his job, moved across the country, started selling shirts and disappeared. If you actually look at the archives up to that point, he's lying about the speed of his updates. And yeah, he has more comics than shirts--because at that point he had like two shirt designs and a huge archive of comics. That's irrelevant and he dodged it. He's an ass. That's not how you run a fucking business.

And you know, when he finally got it in his head that he couldn't keep up with people--that the more he posted online, the more people would hate him and his comic--he decided to disband his forum. (http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?p=148465#p148465) Only he didn't, because I can still link to it. And then five posts in he does the same stupid yelly shit he always did. (http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?p=148513#p148513) This comes back to author/consumer relationships. Someone calls him out on it, on acting superior constantly, and he replies with "stop being inferior."  (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=548044#548044)

Also, his fans are fucking retarded. (http://forums.koalawallop.com/viewtopic.php?p=150921#p150921) That's the post Nor wanted me to link to. Notice immediately Aaron pretty much confirms our worst fears: Kimiko has zero personality and giant breasts who is shy and wants to be a kid and fuck robots. Diaz can't write for shit; if you read Hob and pay attention to what happens, half the story is made up of loose ends that are never resolved and plot points that disappear. He can't lay out a page because he doesn't know about panel layout. He's also really gay for his "unique" views on singularity and transhumanism, but never explains them and prefers to masturbate around them; when confronted about this he simply remarks "I don't think you'd get it." Plus, he's ugly. (http://dresdencodak.com/images/goomba.png) No, really: he's ugly. (http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v226/209/97/n51203085_9986.jpg)

In short: the author/consumer is indeed a factor you cannot ignore; DC is a shitty comic with about a buttload of problems, and if you try and help him make his comic better he claims you just don't get it, as though his comic is the pinnacle of philosophical and scientific boners. If Aaron Diaz was wiped from the planet and his contributions to humanity were eradicated from existence, nothing of value will have been lost. I'll give you that the art looks good and some of the early comics were neat--back when his panel layout created a confusion that aided his weak jokes, the comic was fine. But the more serious and experimental he got, the worse his comic became. If you disagree with me, on any of this, you're wrong, and I swear to fucking Christ I will fight you over it in real life. And I'll win, because I'll be fighting to kill.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 26, 2009, 11:59:36 AM
Next week on YYLER EXPLODES IN FURY: Wondermark sucks dick
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 12:12:40 PM
I like where he airbrushed out his GIANT DISGUSTING MOLES EW EW EW in that first photo (in which, in spite of his concealing stubble, scarf, shadows, and hat, it is very obvious that he is a total ugg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 26, 2009, 12:33:49 PM
But wait! There's more!

I'll give you that the art looks good and some of the early comics were neat--back when his panel layout created a confusion that aided his weak jokes, the comic was fine.

I forgot something about this. His early comics are okay, in some cases, but what you don't see unless you pay attention is that he removed a bunch of shitty comics from his archive and put them in a hidden place. (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_001.htm) Read through those, ye mighty, and despair. The timestamps were edited, but rest assured he posted those in between tiny philosophers fucking each other and Kimiko being shy around boys or whatever his comic is about. These are pretty good examples of "lol random" or "this is a joke few people will understand, am I XKCD yet" that just drives home the fact that he can't write worth pig shit.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 12:38:20 PM
Oh, i like the one where he makes fun of manga character design. (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_012.htm) Mostly because it pleases me to know he will be sent to the hell reserved for enormous hypocrites when he finally fucking dies already.

haha, just kidding! he's already going to the circle of hell reserved for total shitheads. But at least his comic fucking sucks!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 26, 2009, 12:40:54 PM
makes fun of manga character design. (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_012.htm)
I like how he ends this one in particular: "Now you have an uninspired product ready to be introduced into an already saturated medium."

What's the hotline for the irony police? I think I've got a case for them.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 12:42:23 PM
Also the one where he proves the he can ineptly rip off comics that are better than his that AREN'T A Lesson Is Learned. (http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_017.htm) Truly he is a renaissance man, at least in the field of being a complete toolbox in every way.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on April 26, 2009, 12:44:20 PM
 :endit:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 26, 2009, 12:47:56 PM
Also his cast page for his comic has every character listed with their meyers-briggs results. I swear to god i am going to murder Aaron Diaz.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on April 26, 2009, 12:50:24 PM
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Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on April 26, 2009, 12:52:38 PM
ITT comics I looked at and didn't care enough to read more than three pages of and thus have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on April 26, 2009, 12:58:43 PM
Anyone been following Errant Story? I got behind a while back and I'm curious if it's been worth the read.

Did a search and didn't see it, so just in case, Momo's U.F.O. (http://ufo.zamomo.com/)'s been a consistently fun read for years now.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on April 26, 2009, 01:07:08 PM
I've been keeping up with it. I think.

I read it every update and, honestly, I have almost no idea what's going on.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on April 26, 2009, 04:49:28 PM
Man, I totally fucking forgot about Errant Story.  I might have to plow through that some rainy day.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on April 26, 2009, 08:08:13 PM
Girl Genius is looking like it's going to start getting into quintuple-secret-crosses again.  Bwah.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on April 27, 2009, 07:32:32 AM
Girl Genius is looking like it's going to start getting into TOTTALLY HAWT!!!  Bwah.

Is what I want to do, because usually intrigues make me :jizz: no matter how ridiculous or contrived, but I just wasn't down with the last round for some reason.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on April 27, 2009, 12:54:38 PM

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3625/2ptncsx.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 27, 2009, 01:14:25 PM
O____O
Is this "What is wrong with you?" or "Holy shit you're right"

depending on your answer, we may have a fight coming up
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on April 27, 2009, 01:22:25 PM
Neither.

Are you a wizard?

I don't fight wizards.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 27, 2009, 01:27:51 PM
I'm a wizrad, actually.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on April 27, 2009, 01:38:09 PM
Oh, no shit? I'm a warzard.

If you ever need a discount lich, holla.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on April 27, 2009, 01:59:40 PM
:derp: warizard?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on April 27, 2009, 05:59:45 PM
I am a wizzizzard.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on April 27, 2009, 06:07:08 PM
I am a Wizmancer.

Trust me, you do not want to find out what that is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on April 27, 2009, 06:11:02 PM
Er, the ancestral enemy of the Witchalok?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Romosome on April 27, 2009, 06:19:04 PM
I didn't read any of that shit about Dresden Kodak but I just wanted to say:

I browsed the comic for a bit, and if that's what you guys call fanservice I feel ripped off.

no, really, you guys need to link me some actual porn to make up for this one.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on April 27, 2009, 06:26:02 PM
it warms my heart every time someone spells dresden codak wrong

it really, truly does.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on April 27, 2009, 06:33:54 PM
no, really, you guys need to link me some actual porn to make up for this one.

Space/time is Curvy (http://c.urvy.org/)

MEANWHILE: I am about to alienate everyone who has ever existed forever. Achewood: I don't really care for it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on April 27, 2009, 06:42:41 PM
I am a Wizmancer.

Trust me, you do not want to find out what that is.

Something akin to a water bender? PROTIP: Avoid the electric fence.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Arc on April 27, 2009, 06:44:25 PM
Achewood: I don't really care for it.

(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)

Although... (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03242003)

Tehehehehe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on April 27, 2009, 09:39:30 PM
Arc is a very special boy.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on April 27, 2009, 09:45:44 PM
Achewood: I don't really care for it.

(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)

Although... (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03242003)

Tehehehehe.
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)

Sometimes it's funny, but it just doesn't do anything for me on the whole.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on April 27, 2009, 09:52:09 PM
probably if you didn't start reading it at the beginning you would not like it and by now there is WAY too much to read through, so it's not like i can really fault anyone for not liking achewood

i still think you're missing out though !
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on April 28, 2009, 02:29:47 PM
Girl Genius is looking like it's going to start getting into quintuple-secret-crosses again.  Bwah.

That reminds me. I only read the books, so I'm probably a year behind, but does Tarvek get the bitter fruits of his crime-weed after that confusing affair in Sturmhalten?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on April 28, 2009, 02:33:34 PM
You must have been confused, seeing as how the entire point was that Tarvek was trying his damndest to be a good guy while not letting any of the three or four bad guy factions that he was playing for realize it.

He's back in the story right now and dying of gangrene, so I guess your answer is yes.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on April 29, 2009, 07:09:52 AM
Oh dang (http://www.lydiacomic.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on April 29, 2009, 10:03:19 AM
Does Order of the Stick have an incredibly shitty server, or what?  My RSS feed sometimes notifies me of updates, but just about every time I try to actually look at the comic I get 404'd.

As for Girl Genius, Miss Heterodyne-wannabe is going to get a big surprise when she finds out who Gil really is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on April 29, 2009, 10:37:33 AM
It does have a very shitty server.

Also hey newbie where've you been
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: SCD on April 29, 2009, 01:53:02 PM
Finally, something for my specific (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=178) interests that I can "get"!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on April 29, 2009, 04:36:09 PM
Finally, something for my specific (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=178) interests that I can "get"!

 :happy:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on April 30, 2009, 07:35:06 AM
Also hey newbie where've you been

Oh, you know.  Thither and yon.

Seriously, though, today marks the first time I've been able to read Order of the Stick this month.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 08, 2009, 03:18:42 PM
Oh my God, guys! LICD actually had a funny joke that was not played out in any stupid way, in the last panel of a comic that didn't defile any group of people in any way, shape or form, no less! (http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090507) I think this is a really good sign, the comic might make a turn out of the old immatu- Oh... Ooooohhhhh (http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090508)...
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 08, 2009, 03:48:18 PM
Wait, where was the joke?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on May 08, 2009, 03:48:40 PM
...Why were you or anyone you know reading LICD?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 08, 2009, 04:50:06 PM
Did I just look at one webcomic or a series of unrelated panels with similar art styles and word bubbles filled in by random sentences from Google?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on May 08, 2009, 05:16:45 PM
I like how the main character in LICD is literally a shit-eating grin.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 08, 2009, 08:07:35 PM
THAT IS NOT WHAT "LITERALLY" MEANS
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on May 08, 2009, 08:10:10 PM
Have you actually read LICD, Zara
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on May 08, 2009, 08:19:35 PM
Unless the non-literal use of "literally" is a reference to the comic, I'm siding with Zara on this.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on May 08, 2009, 08:21:53 PM
Have you actually read LICD, Burrito
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 08, 2009, 08:40:07 PM
Judging by the supplied context I'm guessing "No" is the right answer in a few ways here.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 09, 2009, 05:59:02 AM
THAT IS NOT WHAT "LITERALLY" MEANS
Unless the non-literal use of "literally" is a reference to the comic, I'm siding with Zara on this.

I already had to have Thad crush my dreams here early in the pet peeves thread. "Literally" used incorrectly before an embellishment is proper use. The exact opposite of the definition of the word is proper use of it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on May 09, 2009, 07:16:15 AM
Menage a 3's latest development is giving me flashbacks.

... and ideas. :suave:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on May 09, 2009, 09:06:48 AM
THAT IS NOT WHAT "LITERALLY" MEANS
Unless the non-literal use of "literally" is a reference to the comic, I'm siding with Zara on this.

I already had to have Thad crush my dreams here early in the pet peeves thread. "Literally" used incorrectly before an embellishment is proper use. The exact opposite of the definition of the word is proper use of it.

Thank you, but no, I am not embellishing. The main character in LICD is a shit-eating grin. All he has is a shit-eating grin, and all he does is grin shit-eatingishly. He is a shit-eating grin. Literally.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 09, 2009, 09:45:54 AM
Ninja, are you saying that at some point in the strip the character has eaten shit?

y/b?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on May 09, 2009, 09:46:51 AM
Have you actually read LICD, Constantine
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 09, 2009, 09:48:12 AM
I try not to.


With every fiber of my being.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on May 09, 2009, 10:04:12 AM
So I'm having trouble figuring out if the latest VGCats is satire, or if Scott whatsisname actually believes what the pink cat thing is screaming about. :shrug:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 09, 2009, 10:11:55 AM
The impression I have is that he really feels this way but he knows that if he wants to express this opinion in public without universal ridicule he can only do so through a cartoon cat.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on May 09, 2009, 10:15:52 AM
Especially since it's wrong to begin with.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 09, 2009, 10:45:42 AM
And like everything VGcats talks about, it's already an old debate.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: on May 09, 2009, 11:42:32 AM
It's what he really believes. And in my opinion, horrifically flawed.

"Hardcore" gamers have their heads lodged so far up their own asses that the term "colonhat" can't be far behind. The whole elitist mindset that gaming should be some special thing only for them is, well, bullshit. They scream about how casual gaming is ruining the industry when it's their own closed mindset that's fucking it up far, far worse. It's not even ruining, it's changing, and change scares the hardcore, like sunlight to dracula.

You want to try and get more, as you call, 'hardcore' games in? Use the huge influx of casual gamers and turn them into regular. Uncle Jimmy has one, he likes chess? Introduce him to SRPGs. Start basic, go more complex. Point him to a cheap PS2 and a stack of good ones. Bam, there's a convert. Grandpa was in the Air Force? Point out some of the more politically-flavored Flight Sims. Mouth-breathing brother-in-law likes ultraviolent movies? Throw Madworld at him.

Etc etc etc.

We are all Gamers. Drawing a line across the floor and demanding that the other side never cross it is bad.

... :nyoro~n: I need to stop getting so worked up over silly things.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 09, 2009, 11:55:47 AM
It may or may not be what the guy actually believes, but the reason he made a strip out of it is more or less because he has lost his grip on comedy and is falling back on what seems to have worked before.  Angry gamer rants, in this case.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on May 09, 2009, 12:00:18 PM
because he refuses to change.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 09, 2009, 08:08:14 PM
You do realize I earn more in a month making casual games than I earned in donations in the last ten years right
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on May 09, 2009, 08:18:45 PM
Naturally. But do you think growing up as a nerd has entitled you to a retarded martyr complex?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 09, 2009, 08:20:54 PM
Guild started an entire topic about it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Romosome on May 09, 2009, 08:31:47 PM
where's that Cool Frog icon
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on May 10, 2009, 12:14:03 AM
Naturally. But do you think growing up as a nerd has entitled you to a retarded martyr complex?

....... it's zara
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on May 10, 2009, 12:14:14 AM
OH COME ON SOMEBODY HAD TO SAY IT
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 10, 2009, 08:56:05 PM
Oasis vs. Bun-Bun fight.

:ohshi~:

Is it Sweeps Week?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 10, 2009, 08:57:58 PM
Oh right, Fighter vs. Black Mage too.

And Gil and Agatha are finally back together.

...

It's definitely Sweeps Week.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 10, 2009, 08:59:06 PM
Oh and Officer Getskilled.

So, yeah, I'm going to cross my fingers and hope Misfile does a full-on lesbo scene...
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 10, 2009, 09:49:31 PM
Because of that, Brentai, I've gone and checked out Sluggy Freelance for the first time in years.

The first thing I note is that even though I don't specifically know what's going on, it doesn't feel like I've missed much in the time I haven't been reading.  Particularly the website, which is still rocking 2001 or whatever.

The second thing is that Pete Abrams writes dialogue about as well as Brian Bendis. "SIT YOUR ASS DOWN AND WAIT FOR ME TO FINISH MY PHONE CALL OR I WILL SO SPANK YOU LIKE THE DEMENTED TODDLER YOU ARE" is truly a quote worthy of Doctor Doom (http://www.whiterose.org/howlingcurmudgeons/Images/Doom.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 10, 2009, 09:54:37 PM
To be fair, Bun-Bun is actually supposed to sound like a jerk who hasn't updated his personality or lingo since 1997.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 10, 2009, 10:06:49 PM
Is Oasis still a mind-controlled robot girl programmed to love Torg for some reason?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 10, 2009, 10:14:20 PM
No, now she is a zombie ghost.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 10, 2009, 11:14:31 PM
Oasis is the MacGuffin that fights back.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on May 11, 2009, 09:30:04 PM
I just found out my website from ten years ago still exists.

This includes my Sluggy Freelance fansite.   :ohshi~:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on May 11, 2009, 09:37:24 PM
Oh, the follies youth.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 12, 2009, 08:08:59 AM
I just found out my website from ten years ago still exists.

This includes my Sluggy Freelance fansite.   :ohshi~:

You have no idea how glad I was when Prodigy finally took down Sonic '97.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on May 12, 2009, 08:34:57 AM
I'm sure we could all fill a 50 page thread sharing the tales of our own personal web abominations from the early days. I was involved in not one, but two Pokemon websites and a general videogaming fansite. My first homepage had a crappy .gif of Keroppi. And the roleplaying... oh god the roleplaying.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 12, 2009, 08:56:30 AM
I had a geocity page dedicated to the glory of Warhammer 40k or something.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on May 12, 2009, 11:16:26 AM
All hail Emperor The Mayor, I guess.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 22, 2009, 04:56:28 AM
I just realized that the biggest reason I keep up with 8-bit Theater is because I want to see Sarda die. Guy's a dick. A dick among dicks. A king of dicks, ruler of a kingdom of dicks on a planet of dicks in a galaxy of dicks.

It'll probably never happen though, on account of all the omnipotence. I had hoped supercharged Black Mage would be equal to the task, but yeah, no.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fortinbras on May 22, 2009, 04:59:28 AM
I love 6 or 7 Popes (http://www.6or7popes.com) and so should you.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on May 22, 2009, 05:00:58 AM
He IS a dick, but I'm not entirely sure I can begrudge him for it.  Plus, look who he's dealing with.

Of course, all sympathy may flee in the light of his true intentions...
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 22, 2009, 05:12:32 AM
If you're reading 8-Bit Theater in the hope that anything different from the last what 1000 comics happens, I think you may be wasting your time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 22, 2009, 05:18:05 AM
It feels like it's winding down, though, like something's gonna happen. I mean, something has to happen, all that's left is Chaos. It's not like he can take it further than that.

...can he?

:>_>:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on May 22, 2009, 06:24:36 AM
It's definitely winding down.  He's already soliciting for an artist to help him with a new webcomic.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 22, 2009, 07:55:14 AM
The current page so much as tells you that you're wasting your time if you expect any sort of climactic finish, though.

Still think it should have ended with Fighter waking up.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on May 22, 2009, 09:31:58 AM
So Family Man (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dmeconis/familyman/series.php) is a webcomic about a small-time 18th-century German theological scholar. Over a hundred pages in and I still can't quite tell where it's going, but I like it a lot.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on May 26, 2009, 01:42:37 AM
Double post. They say that if you go out to the edge of a forest on a still moonless summer midnight and listen as hard as you can, you might be able to hear the sound of me caring.

I was recently introduced to Shi Long Pang (http://www.moderntales.com/comics/shilongpang.php), which is delightful.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 26, 2009, 05:02:06 AM
A hero is about to deliver a deadly blow to one of Xykon's crew but is stopped by a previously unmentioned trap, take a drink.

I know this is intended to display Xykon as some sort of Batman-like strategy savant but mostly it feels like a DM desperately backpedaling to not have his dangerous NPC killed.

"You can't do that! He... uh... set traps on this room that attack everyone that casts magic! but him! and his lackeys!"
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on May 26, 2009, 05:06:21 AM
The eternal dillemma of the NPC antagonist having secrets or secret plans.

The best compromise is to offer INCREDIBLY faint hints. Hints so faint that they are basically useless, but something you can point to later and say "See?". But even that's hard to pull off.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 26, 2009, 05:13:27 AM
Last I checked, Xykon is not a ponderous wizard, he's an attention-span-challenged sorcerer. Why would he even sit at an invaded city for like a dozen years stumps me to no end.

I was reviewing the Erfworld archive, and fun thing: The Arkenpliers actually fall within inches of Wanda's hand at one point. The next panel has her moving her hand towards it, apparently trying to get up.

Then Ansom gets it back and she plays it like nothing of note was happening. That's stone cold.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on May 26, 2009, 06:55:15 AM
A hero is about to deliver a deadly blow to one of Xykon's crew but is stopped by a previously unmentioned trap, take a drink.

I know this is intended to display Xykon as some sort of Batman-like strategy savant but mostly it feels like a DM desperately backpedaling to not have his dangerous NPC killed.

"You can't do that! He... uh... set traps on this room that attack everyone that casts magic! but him! and his lackeys!"

On the other hand, the entire V arc is a colossal hand-wave that has moved the plot faster in 20 strips than actual story-telling has moved it in 200.

I still lurved it, of course. It's up there with "Belkar can kill shit again!" with giving the audience a sense of "Thank God, now all the sensible people can stop delaying the plot." Violence advances things thrice as fast and elegantly as diplomacy: OoTS is so authentically DnD that it's heart-warming.

Now.. that captured paladin being IMMEDIATELY double cock-blocked on Xykon's phylactery is horseshit. Xykon's lookin' a little DMPC.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 26, 2009, 08:10:29 AM
I dunno, the moment he picked the damn thing up my first thought was "How in the fuck is he planning to break that thing?"

Apparently the answer was "By poking it with a piece of rebar" which yeah I wouldn't expect to work either.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on May 26, 2009, 08:42:00 AM
A high-ish level paladin using power attack ought to bypass it's toughness, but there's extra protections going on, so oh well.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 26, 2009, 08:45:40 AM
Well, it's kind of got his soul in it.

You don't need to be Batman to see a good reason to put a few extra locks on that.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 26, 2009, 10:00:38 AM
SMITE EVIL
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 26, 2009, 05:16:26 PM
I was reviewing the Erfworld archive, and fun thing: The Arkenpliers actually fall within inches of Wanda's hand at one point. The next panel has her moving her hand towards it, apparently trying to get up.

Then Ansom gets it back and she plays it like nothing of note was happening. That's stone cold.

Hell, she pretty much dared Ansom to kill her with the thing. "Touch me. Come down. Touch me with them." (http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F122.jpg) I wonder if he even knows what (who) exactly he took from her.

Man, so many things of importance in that world revolve around people who want to sex up Jillian.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on May 31, 2009, 02:21:14 AM
2D Goggles (http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/) is a comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, having math adventures. The layout is crappy blog layout, but at least it's still fairly young so you don't have to work hard to get to the first one (http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on May 31, 2009, 06:13:32 AM
The organization of it is an utter disaster, but that's the funniest link posted here in a while.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 31, 2009, 08:41:44 AM
are historical webcomics a thing now
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on May 31, 2009, 08:44:34 AM
Well, that's something I've always found amusing when done right. I don't know if there's some kind of bandwagon going on right now though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on May 31, 2009, 08:55:33 AM
Other than uh Kate Beaton's thing I haven't heard of any? Besides this, I mean. Are there more?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on May 31, 2009, 09:24:13 AM
aforementioned 2D Goggles, Hark A Vagrant, http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dmeconis/familyman/ , and in addition

http://www.clockwork-comics.com/2008/03/prologue.html
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on May 31, 2009, 12:01:33 PM
also the only good parts of Dresden Codak
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lottel on May 31, 2009, 12:56:10 PM
http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-05-13 (http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-05-13)

seems pretty good. Has some Canterbury Tales jokes so take that as you will.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on May 31, 2009, 03:54:47 PM
also the only good parts of Dresden Codak

:lol:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on May 31, 2009, 04:03:22 PM
read page 21
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on May 31, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
The Meek (http://www.meekcomic.com/) is a really pretty, well drawn webcomic. Also: naked girl.

Found it on Talking Time. Which is surprising, considering they only seem to enjoy copy/paste gag comics and Gunnerkrigg Court over there.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 03, 2009, 04:07:38 PM
Page 6 of Monster Plus (http://www.actionagecomics.com/?p=197) gives us quite possibly the best villain ever conceived.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 10, 2009, 11:01:48 AM
I'm really digging Starslip (http://www.starslip.com/) lately. Well, even more than usual.

The reboot felt sudden and swept a lot under the carpet, but Straub doesn't seem to shy away from exploring the implications of replacing an alternate-universe version of yourself. Holiday's realizing that she barged in on somebody else's life, which is also her own but not really. And the fact that the guy she was "engaged" to died long before she even met him adds poignancy to the whole affair, more than if he was still alive. Part of her clearly wants to grieve for this man, even though it makes no logical sense. Yet somehow they were together; there must have been something she loved about him. And she'll never know what that even was.

On the other hand, it must be a tremendous relief not to have suddenly been saddled with an unknown husband, or to have to explain to him that she doesn't know him anymore because she screwed the space-time continuum and sent the woman he loved die in her place. So in a way another part of her must be glad he's dead, which must be a weird feeling to have to come to grips with.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 10, 2009, 11:41:56 AM
The starslip mechanic is left very vague. The answer to "what happens to the people we replace" is "who cares?"
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on June 10, 2009, 11:42:59 AM
Earthward Ho!, like Through The Porthole before it, is ending over at Dumm Comics (http://dummcomics.com/).  I like this a lot.  The creators of the comics can do their thing, and walk away whenever they feel like they've done what they wanted to with their day being filled in by some new talent, and the site gets to maintain consistency by changing them out one at a time.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 10, 2009, 12:40:25 PM
Earthward Ho!, like Through The Porthole before it, is ending over at Dumm Comics (http://dummcomics.com/).  I like this a lot.  The creators of the comics can do their thing, and walk away whenever they feel like they've done what they wanted to with their day being filled in by some new talent, and the site gets to maintain consistency by changing them out one at a time.

Yeah, but I hope Skadi sticks around for a good while.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 10, 2009, 03:09:55 PM
Except Earthward Ho! had a serial storyline that was fairly close to completion.  Either there's going to be one very long comic on Friday or he's going to leave it hanging on chapter 22 of 24.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on June 10, 2009, 03:42:42 PM
He's got three more comics to go, I believe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 10, 2009, 09:19:42 PM
I'm digging this new Penny Arcade thing (http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/10/). It's pretty, and the last panel made me laugh (although I'm starting to think I'm not supposed to).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 11, 2009, 09:07:32 AM
Their podcast about it is fascinating too. It's always a great listen, but hearing that particular idea take shape feels quite remarkable.

Man, clicking the "first comic" button is a life lesson in itself. Talent and dedication, from there to here, you know?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fredward on June 11, 2009, 07:50:53 PM
I'm glad SMBC can still make me laugh, if infrequently. (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1543)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 12, 2009, 09:47:55 AM
Automata. Jesus. Man.

I like Penny-Arcade, by which I mean the gaming comic, but I don't think I can look at it again without thinking about the things these guys could show us if they decided they didn't want to talk about, I dunno, Electronic Arts or whatever anymore.

And there's gonna be a third one, and there'll be a vote, and we'll only see one developed (in the near future?)? Dang, that's borderline cruel. I still like Lookouts best so far, but, you know, Jim Darkmagic is next. I'm not clever enough to wager yet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 12, 2009, 10:22:50 AM
they -could- just hire more artists and maybe a co-writer if they -really- wanted to develop these.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 12, 2009, 10:43:15 AM
... motherfucker. I had a similar idea a while ago (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=225.msg55583#msg55583). I never did anything with it, but it still sort of stings that not only did someone else do it first, they did it better than I ever could have.

Anyway, their next one is going to have to be so good it bleeds, because as far as I'm concerned Automata is the clear winner.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: on June 12, 2009, 12:52:28 PM
Automata is far, far older than they let on. I have their books - I am a total sucker for things with creator commentary, and the books don't let down - and one of them has "Stuff we tried that never made it to light" - Automata is one of them, with the designs being almost identical to what we're seeing in today's strip.

The story mentioned in the book is the exact same that Tycho mentions in the newspost: Robots during prohibition, with "machine intelligence" being outlawed. It never branched further than one page and a few lines of dialogue, which is in the book, I believe. The books are packed up at the moment. I do know that there's a cowboy thing called "Jericho" also in the same book in the "failed projects" section, and if that's the third thing they show us, I want it to be known that I fucking called it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 12, 2009, 02:06:01 PM
I do know that there's a cowboy thing called "Jericho" also in the same book in the "failed projects" section, and if that's the third thing they show us, I want it to be known that I fucking called it.

They're apparently doing a Jim Darkmagic thing next; it's in Jerry's wednesday post and Mike also mentioned it today.

For the benefit of whoever hasn't listened to the DnD podcasts they did with Scott Kurtz and Wil Wheaton: Jim was Mike's character in that. I'm fairly sure it's going to be a 100% comedy thing, as JD as a character is funny but basically one-note.

But then again those last few days have taught me to expect the unexpected, so what do I know?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 12, 2009, 08:23:28 PM
Quote from: http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0028.html
Our aim is essentially to create what could potentially be an alternative soundtrack to the film. The goal is that when we're done, you could watch the film, redubbed with our dialogue (and some other additions to cover the scenes we're skipping), and it would all make sense.

Now that they've finished the first movie (and are about halfway through the second), is there any indication that anybody's actually working on this?

I call R2.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on June 13, 2009, 07:26:01 AM
[spoiler]Xykon did you just set-up your minion betraying you in the climatic final battle between good and evil

Xykon noooooo

bad Xykon

Xykooooooon nooooo[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 13, 2009, 11:56:49 AM
[spoiler]Xykon did you just set-up your minion betraying you in the climatic final battle between good and evil

Xykon noooooo

bad Xykon

Xykooooooon nooooo[/spoiler]

What're you jabbering about?  Redcloak is pretty much ready to backstab Xykon the moment it's advantageous.  Hell, the whole purpose of searching out the gates is a roundabout backstab on Xykon.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on June 13, 2009, 12:01:04 PM
I dunno I thought Redcloak was pretty set to mutually partner with Xykon because goblinoids are oppressed and butchered by humans.

Now Xykon is just like "here's a festering reminder to betray me one day."
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 13, 2009, 12:07:42 PM
Yeah, they've been setting that up since pretty much the second story arc.

The main thing is how the hell it hasn't managed to happen yet.  It's probably one of those things I'd need to read SoD to get.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 13, 2009, 12:29:55 PM
Loosing an eye is the least of things Xykon has done to Redcloak.  At best it will just remind him of every other reason he has to hate Xykon
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 13, 2009, 01:21:37 PM
[spoiler]Is there any reason why he can't Regenerate the eye later, after Xykon's dead?

It's more like a constant nagging reminder that "Kill Xykon" is on his to-do list.[/spoiler]

Wait a minute, what the hell happened to Xykon's skull-cracks in the last strip?  Did they just not get drawn or does it mean something?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on June 13, 2009, 01:29:16 PM
Tsukiko hand-waved it with Inflict Wounds.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 13, 2009, 08:45:04 PM
About the only reason I read 8BT at this point is because it's apparently about to end soon and I want to say I stuck it out for the long run, but every once in a while it does at least have a joke that's so bad that you can't help but laugh at it.

(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/090613.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 15, 2009, 12:08:47 AM
Jim Darkmagic is up (http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/15/). It's cute, but it's nowhere near what Lookouts or Automata seem to be.

And, honestly, even though I'm pulling for Automata, it's kind of obvious that the winner is going to be Lookouts.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 15, 2009, 12:26:38 AM
Yeah they really didn't want to do Jim Darkmagic I guess.

Most people seem to be pulling for Automata.  And why not?  A fairy tale is a fairy tale, but anachronistic-robots-with-shades-of-muscling-in-on-Brian-Clevinger's-turf-and-giving-him-a-pantsing is something new and exciting.  Well, something exciting anyway.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on June 19, 2009, 10:20:58 AM
Horribleville is returning! (http://capn-special.livejournal.com/143359.html)

(http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/grumphis/gc/book1/gc-003.png)

He's still got it!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 19, 2009, 10:29:07 AM
Thank God.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 22, 2009, 12:11:38 PM
This is an actual strip.

(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/wp20090622.jpg)

Piglet is a douche.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 22, 2009, 03:05:40 PM
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/wp20090622.jpg)

 :wat:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 22, 2009, 03:18:04 PM
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/wp20090622.jpg)

(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/SmileAv.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on June 22, 2009, 11:54:22 PM
I need a source.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 23, 2009, 12:03:33 AM
It's syndicated, I think.  I grabbed it off GoComics' iGoogle app thingy.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 26, 2009, 12:05:34 PM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (http://www.smbc-comics.com/) is gonna ride the Internet sketch comedy train.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4flQlyZFbFc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smbc-comics.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 27, 2009, 06:27:14 PM
Roy's back!

...well, I mean, Roy's alive again.


Also, Roy's front.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 28, 2009, 11:39:59 PM
Fuck you, Cornelius.  Fuck you unto death.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 29, 2009, 03:36:13 AM
wat
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on June 29, 2009, 05:31:58 AM
I... think he's maybe talking about Achewood? Not sure.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 29, 2009, 05:41:00 AM
if it helps just imagine MJ died at 27 and you spent the week after drinking and having grief sex instead of whining about how old you are.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on June 29, 2009, 05:54:16 AM
if it helps just imagine MJ died at 27 and you spent the week after drinking and having grief sex instead of whining about how old you are.

Spiderman? 

LORDY I'M CONE-FUSED.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 29, 2009, 07:08:37 AM
You know what helps? Hot Links.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on June 29, 2009, 12:24:02 PM
Penny Arcade is doing both. Everybody wins!

except /co/. They'll find something to bitch about.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 29, 2009, 04:43:11 PM
Speaking of Hot Links, here's one to Oglaf (http://oglaf.com/skulls.html). It's a porn comic, but that strip in particular is work safe. And funny, I think.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on June 29, 2009, 08:12:58 PM
I remember browsing through that the last time someone linked me to it somewhere.  This one (http://oglaf.com/8legs.html) made me laugh.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2009, 05:28:20 PM
MYSTERY SOLVING TEENS (http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/teenssm.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 30, 2009, 05:29:34 PM
in soviet russia
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji on July 10, 2009, 10:21:11 AM
Pros: Webcomic that isn't just some copy-paste job? Being drawn live on the Intertubes? Awesome!
Cons: Oh wait, it's just Megaslowkyo again (http://www.megatokyo.com/fredarting)...

It'd be neat to see this in something like Three Panel Soul or even XKCD, but I guess I'll take what I can get.

...Fred, you know it in your heart how the story must end... [spoiler]Massive gay orgy[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on July 11, 2009, 11:17:03 AM
Lackadaisy finally updated again (http://lackadaisycats.com/). Continues being the best drawn webcomic on the internet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on July 11, 2009, 12:39:56 PM
Pros: Webcomic that isn't just some copy-paste job? Being drawn live on the Intertubes? Awesome!
Cons: Oh wait, it's just Megaslowkyo again (http://www.megatokyo.com/fredarting)...

It'd be neat to see this in something like Three Panel Soul or even XKCD, but I guess I'll take what I can get.

...Fred, you know it in your heart how the story must end... [spoiler]Massive gay orgy[/spoiler]

After, what, ten years? Megatokyo's art has still not improved AT ALL.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on July 11, 2009, 12:53:06 PM
isn't megatokyo that gaming comic that turned into a coping-with-your-pedophilia comic
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: McDohl on July 11, 2009, 12:55:25 PM
With a salt-shaker prank's worth of weeaboo.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on July 11, 2009, 01:00:14 PM
A friend of mine, Miles Grover, just launched a new comic called Creep House (http://www.creephouse.net/view.php?date=2009-07-07). I really like it so far.

You may know him as the guy behind Thinkin' Lincoln (http://www.thinkin-lincoln.com/) but I honestly like that comic not a whole lot these days, though there are some amazing gems in his archive.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on July 11, 2009, 01:26:11 PM
Pros: Webcomic that isn't just some copy-paste job? Being drawn live on the Intertubes? Awesome!
Cons: Oh wait, it's just Megaslowkyo again (http://www.megatokyo.com/fredarting)...

It'd be neat to see this in something like Three Panel Soul or even XKCD, but I guess I'll take what I can get.

...Fred, you know it in your heart how the story must end... [spoiler]Massive gay orgy[/spoiler]

After, what, ten years? Megatokyo's art has still not improved AT ALL.

I'd stick that Family Guy "I Disagree" image macro here if I could be bothered to.

Playing devil's advocate for a second, whatshisface's artwork has improved; simply looking at the first few comics and comparing them to his later stuff confirms this.  Maybe not better in all respects (would it have killed him to at least get a unique style of drawing generic anime girls?), and maybe he's sort of plateaued at this point, but it has gotten better overall.  Still, I can't help but wonder if his style would have developed differently had it been in the hands of someone who wasn't, you know, the male Japanophile equivalent of Laurell K. Hamilton.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on July 11, 2009, 01:54:33 PM
(http://doom.pyoko.org/idisagree.jpg)

You have to make actual effort or be truly pathetic to stagnate to the degree that ol' Freddie boy has. I mean, TEN YEARS. A DECADE. Probably most of that spent living off the comic. It'd be pathetic even if you had strictly average standards. He's lower than a robot.

And when I left off he was doing that much. Updating maybe once or twice a week, missing updates frequently and putting up vomit from his stick figure friend, basically being pathetic.

When you say "It's gotten better overall", I imagine it'd be more accurate to say "he doodled for kicks with his friend for a year, realized he could make a living, and stuck to a consistent point of minimal effort that was at least slightly better than the original doodles." I stopped even checking Megatokyo on a bi-annual basis like six years ago. Today's strip could easily be slipped into year two or three.

TO TRULY PLAY DEVIL'S ADVOCATE FOR A SECOND, I am in fact envious as hell of people who realize they can show up to "work", put in five minutes of actual work and sit there jacking off for the other metaphorical 8 hours of the day. Megatokyo, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, etc etc etc. I guess all it really takes is that initial and unique miracle of internet cluster-fucking to ride for the rest of your adult life. Manning up and actually being great at it like Penny Arcade is strictly optional.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on July 11, 2009, 02:16:39 PM
Being disappointed over webcomics never was my forte.  :nyoro~n:

My LKH analogy is still spot-on, though.

EDIT: Fuck it.  Fuck it!  Hold on, everyone shut the fuck up and let me think for a second.

...

Okay.  So.

Gaston was bad, but he got better.  I haven't read it in fucking ages so I don't know when that happened exactly and I have better things to do than read the entire bloody archives of Megatokyo to figure out when, but at some point he did.  The art just stopped improving at some point (or "plateaued," as I put it) in some sort of calculated effort at Jim Davis-esque sustained mediocrity, except that Jim Davis could actually keep to a schedule.  He's not bad, per se (it's all generic moeblob bullshit but at least it isn't actively offensive), but the fact that he's settled for slightly above average with no interest or incentive to get better is more damning than any lack of talent.

Is that what we're driving at here?  Is that it?  Gaston being a disgusting, stagnant beast unable to crawl out of his own misery and surrounded by spineless apologists that would embarrass the Papacy while parroting the most insipid excesses of Japan's bastard children at a near-glacial pace?

Jesus fucking Christ.

...

Is self-improvement some sort of bad word these days?  Are people so afraid of criticism or doing something hard or - heaven forbid - losing that they throw a shit fit whenever someone suggests that maybe they could be doing something wrong?  I mean look at that last post up there by me.  LOOK AT IT.  That is some spineless, flaccid arguing.  But it reinforced a very good rule for me: Don't try to argue a fucking point if you don't fucking know anything about it.  I fucked up!  I admit it!  I did something wrong, Doom saw an opening and he attacked my weak point for massive damage!

(He still used "devil's advocate" when he did not, in fact, argue the opposing viewpoint and just expressed jealousy over the exact thing that I started a tangent over but that doesn't count for anything at this point, at all, ever.)

But oh wait you can't do anything wrong on the Internet!  Not when there's so many people telling you that you did something right!  That's some serious "everyone is special in their own way" bullshit right there and it sickens me.  You think that people point out perspective problems or bad grammar or plotting or sloppy code or poor level design because they hate you?  If they hated you they'd just call you names and troll your MySpace page.  They do this because it's generally assumed that when people do something they want to get better at it.  But maybe not!  Maybe someone just wants to be... average.  Maybe they like perspective problems or bad plotting or constant hall of mirror effects.  I do not know!  I am not them!  Possibly because I am not so fucking insecure as to take people pointing out errors I didn't see as personal attacks and most likely because - get this - I realize that I am not infallible!  I am not perfect!  Neither are you!  It's amazing, I know!

There's a saying I toss around a lot and usually I'm joking when I say it but here I'm not: "You don't get the fans you want, you get the fans you deserve."  Well I gotta tell you right now, Megatokyo proves this.  It practically defines that saying, because MT's forums are a bunch of underage no-talent weeaboos who wouldn't know quality from QUALITY if it broke their boxes of Pocky open and drove that stale-ass shit under their fingernails, and if you talk shit about MT every single one of them will defend this fucking comic to the death - to the death.  Gaston's probably too depressed over his own inconsequential shit to get it up these days, much less respond to criticism, but that's okay because he has a great big forum full of rollicking, teeming, unwashed masses ready to tear you apart if you point out things like his chronic ability to keep to a schedule or stagnating art because OH-EM-EFFING-GEE HE MADE FUN OF PIRO-SAMA.  Good job, you guys.  Maybe if you shout a little louder you can drown out that little voice of doubt in your mind that says that maybe the other guy's got a point.

Any human being with a shred of decency would eventually become disgusted with the perpetuation of a plot most Japanese artists at least have the decency to add gratuitous sex scenes to (so even though you're wasting your time reading it you have something to show for your efforts) and either the unwillingness or inability to get better at something, because heaven knows enough of the former readers have.  But maybe that's what's happened.  Maybe he got disgusted with himself years ago and he's dragging his feet but doesn't have the balls to either man up or put a bullet in this abomination so he's just keeping the status quo.

Same as usual, then, I suppose.  At least he has his fans to keep him company.

...

At this point I don't even fucking care that this is all amazingly long-winded and potentially off-topic and illogical because I'm going to forget everything I typed in a matter of hours, and if you know what's good for you then you will too.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: on July 12, 2009, 02:33:55 PM
All I took away from that is:

Megatokyo is the Webcomic Equivalent of Garfield.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on July 12, 2009, 03:08:12 PM
See now, my problem with Garfield is that, at one point, as a child, I could bring myself to enjoy it. It was wacky, and Jon yelling at his cat for all manner of shenanigans was entertaining enough to get a couple solid laughs out of me. I only became genuinely annoyed when I would pay for a volume of fat cat jokes, and instead, find that Jim Davis had taken an enormous shit on a page of paper. I had wasted my seven dollars, and I resented him for it.

With MegaTokyo, and I did read MT for a bit before it was clear the comic had no intention of going anywhere whatsoever, I've come to the conclusion that this was as far as Fred wanted to go with it, and that yes, his comic sucks, but whatever. And this is an important concept to understand. But whatever.

The wonderful thing about webcomics is that they're completely free of charge, and accessible only by means of actively deciding to go there and submit yourself to their mind-blowing retardation. If a comic sucks as hard as MT eventually did, I stop going there. I no longer have to think about it, much less get frustrated by it. It's not like there's a million-dollar live-action MT movie being released with a dancing CG cat whose trailer I am forced to sit through, it's not like I have Piro plushies and leather-bound anthologies dominating every kid's section of the bookstore, I can completely ignore the existence of MT and it is wonderful.

If Fred decided, for whatever fucking reason, that this was as far as he wanted to go, well that's just fine and dandy. I'm not paying him, I don't need to be reminded of him, I certainly don't need to get frustrated by him (I've had more than one friend deliver me a similar rant), he's just a comically obese dude on the internet who decided that what his self-insertion online manga was good enough.

tl;dr Why do people care so much about this? It's free and on the internet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on July 12, 2009, 03:21:55 PM
If Internet people stopped producing hyperbolic complaints about inconsequential annoyances, life as we know it would cease to exist.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 12, 2009, 03:24:25 PM
If Internet people stopped producing hyperbolic complaints about inconsequential annoyances, life as we know it would cease to exist.

Bongobill and TF2 are actually the source of the Sun's fusion reactions.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on July 12, 2009, 04:43:48 PM
tl;dr Why do people care so much about this? It's free and on the internet.

At some point Rodney decided it was worth charging money for and made a deal to publish it both here and in Japan (dunno if someone is translating it for Glorious Nippon as the comic goes on, but if not it's the only way to read it in Japanese), which means that his work ethic has gone from "that's good enough" to "that's good enough, people will buy it anyway," which is pretty shitty by anyone's standards.  At least the guy who does Berserk is a much better artist and has his sudden addiction to Idolmaster to blame for his lapse in productivity.

Secondly, it's not that I care about it, it's that I had problems articulating what I wanted to say, got frustrated and decided to go off on whatever was closest... which was that.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on July 12, 2009, 04:49:52 PM
tl;dr Why do people care so much about this? It's free and on the internet.
Just because something is free and online doesn't mean that it should be subject to zero criticism. That is why. There is an element of "We could just not pay it any mind and it will probably go away" but given the amount of stupid people on the Internet it is important to occasionally make a distinction between them and yourself. The easiest way to do this is to criticize something online that is free.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 12, 2009, 04:56:42 PM
Constructive criticism is best aimed at the author, not at an internet message board whose members probably have zero collective interest in the thing.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on July 12, 2009, 04:57:06 PM
Also, repeatedly stating that something sucks isn't really an opinion, nor is it constructive.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on July 12, 2009, 04:59:50 PM
That's why I don't talk about webcomics here. I talk about them on webcomics boards.

Anyway I was just sayin'.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 12, 2009, 05:01:50 PM
In conclusion:

WARNING: CONTAINS O.HAKUBI
:advice:
AIM AWAY FROM FACE
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on July 12, 2009, 05:06:16 PM
Meanwhile, Yoshi's expression in the second frame is the perfect expression of a dinosaur that is thinking, "Oh shit, that guy has a motorcycle!" (http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=14&issue=15)

Gordito seems to be very focused on something else.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on July 12, 2009, 05:45:15 PM
Constructive criticism is best aimed at the author, not at an internet message board whose members probably have zero collective interest in the thing.

the problem with this is that sending your constructive criticism to Fred will result in him bitching about it in a blog post and you'll end up getting DDoS'd by his insane fans.

Ask Ghastly, Gabe & Tycho, Kurtz or any of the other webcomic artists and writers who have dared to make a comment that could vaguely be construed as negative by the fanbase.

Megatokyo is the sluggy freelance of this generation, it is a webcomic that has gotten fat and stupid, has never improved, is too long between updates, and if god is merciful will be abandoned by it's fans before too long. At least, I can hope.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on July 12, 2009, 05:57:28 PM
Just because something is free and online doesn't mean that it should be subject to zero criticism. That is why. There is an element of "We could just not pay it any mind and it will probably go away" but given the amount of stupid people on the Internet it is important to occasionally make a distinction between them and yourself. The easiest way to do this is to criticize something online that is free.

No no, I'm all about constructive criticism. People should be encouraged to be better, or at least encouraged to try to get better, not sung songs of undying praise by entire frothing communities of fanatical devotees.

Saying something's good enough when it clearly isn't doesn't help, especially when it's an ongoing project like this.

That said, there's no shortage of folks online who have made their grievances known, and Fred's responded by apparently not giving a shit. It's a shame, but he apparently has no interest in going any farther with it, so whatever. No sense getting mad at the guy when he really has no responsibility to his internet fans, and has made his choice.

At some point Rodney decided it was worth charging money for and made a deal to publish it both here and in Japan (dunno if someone is translating it for Glorious Nippon as the comic goes on, but if not it's the only way to read it in Japanese), which means that his work ethic has gone from "that's good enough" to "that's good enough, people will buy it anyway," which is pretty shitty by anyone's standards.

The fact that it's online, though, makes this less of a big deal to me. I know MT has made its way to actual bookstores, but it hasn't manipulated its audience like some other book series have (i.e. the ones you have to pay to read more of). You can always follow it online for free, thus, there's no real obligation to quality. If you've ever read MT before, buying their latest issue should be more of what you expect: one man's attempt to live in a world of moe.

If there's an audience for it, whatever, let them enjoy it - hopefully they'll grow out of it. At worst, hey, another person in the world that makes us all look better by contrast!

Secondly, it's not that I care about it, it's that I had problems articulating what I wanted to say, got frustrated and decided to go off on whatever was closest... which was that.

Yeah, I know, it just seemed like something that was in some way still bugging you, and it's important to understand that such a thing should in no way annoy you in the slightest.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on July 12, 2009, 06:01:20 PM
WARNING: CONTAINS O.HAKUBI
:advice:
AIM AWAY FROM FACE

:jizz:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on July 12, 2009, 07:20:39 PM
If Internet people stopped producing hyperbolic complaints about inconsequential annoyances, life as we know it would cease to exist.

Bongobill and TF2 are actually the source of the Sun's fusion reactions.

That's right! If it weren't for me, Earth would be a cold and lifeless space rock! I have important duties to perform!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on July 13, 2009, 04:14:22 AM
Dresden Codak did something that was actually pretty decent (http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on July 13, 2009, 04:30:05 AM
The dude's not an idiot. I guess sooner or later he had to figure out that clever panel layouts are worthless if they aren't intuitive.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 13, 2009, 05:53:47 AM
That was actually... non-horrible.

I'm geniunely suprised.

The dude's not an idiot. I guess sooner or later he had to figure out that clever panel layouts are worthless if they aren't intuitive.

Never assume that the end of any form of stupidity is inevitable.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on July 13, 2009, 09:20:11 AM
There's quite a few quality strips before the current as well. Looks like he settled back into what he's good at.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 13, 2009, 09:44:02 AM
Thankfully.  It only took two story arcs to realize he can't do story arcs!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on July 13, 2009, 10:47:26 AM
Actually, today's comic is terrible. It's (at this point) an old joke that Diaz's writing doesn't help or save. I'm glad he fixed his "panel" layout (- - - - instead of \ / \ / / \ \), and this is better than most of his archive, but it's not impressive and it's just more of the same. Good to see he's maybe finally listening to his billions of critics; unfortunate to see he's mostly ignoring them.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 13, 2009, 11:11:51 AM
There's a certain category of author that really just wants to impress their audience with their knowledge. There are even many published authors who fit this mold. Diaz is merely another one of these idiots.

The problem with that is that entertaining or informing your audience is always taking a back seat to arrogant self-satisfaction. No matter how much 'crocodile angst' the author's mind generates to compensate, it's still not good writing.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 13, 2009, 02:53:17 PM
Man... I just got home and was going over some of my not-web comics.

You know, something like DK looks maybe okay at first for the kids who are craving an 'intellectual' comic, but then you see something like Moebius' The Airtight Garage (and it's sequel The Man From the Ciguri) and DK shrivels down into a small prepubescent world where a little boy just babbles pseudo-inellectual shout-outs all day.

So, uh, go read Madwoman of the Sacred Heart or something.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on July 13, 2009, 03:17:23 PM
DC. DC DC DC.

Codak. Dresden Codak.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 13, 2009, 07:01:14 PM
I just read airtight garage and it looked mostly like generic european comic where a band of men rides around a sci-fi desert and fights weird monsters and shit.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on July 13, 2009, 07:33:15 PM
It's only generic because Moebius fucking invented that shit.

Also apart from the word "generic" I'm not seeing anything negative in that summary.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 13, 2009, 08:05:07 PM
It's only generic because Moebius fucking invented that shit.

Yeah, totally. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on July 13, 2009, 11:22:24 PM
Those do not look like comic books to me.


But yes, strictly speaking I should have said "Moebius and his buddies" and also strictly speaking I should have known better than to make an off the cuff remark about comics without meeting Wikipedia standards of journalistic integrity on this forum.


EDIT: It suddenly occurred to me that you must have thought I was talking about the sci-fi desert & monsters part of Zara's quote and not the generic European SF bandes dessinées style, in which case we are not even having the same conversation.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 14, 2009, 05:11:26 AM
The thing about the Airtight Garage is that you need to understand the background.

Quote
Basically, Moebius started writing a new multidimensional sci-fi story. He did three pages and then misplaced them. Unable to find the first three pages, he then started all over again from a totally different angle. When he found the first three pages, he set himself a challenge: write three more pages that linked the first two groups. From that point, he basically made it into a crazy exercise. Each three-page bundle had to unify the previous bundles, while ALSO completely destroying any continuity he had carefully constructed so far in the story. The resulting story is a hell of a mindfuck, but is still entertaining and well worth a look at the very least.

Actually, it might be two-page bundles... anyway, I can always check later.

Re; Buge/LaserB

Yeah, Moebius is pretty key. His greatest claim to fame is that he is pretty much the founder of the entire Heavy Metal genre, simultanouesly playing the Heavy Metal equivalent of Ditko AND Kirby roles (while avoiding the Stan Lee stuff). Yes he had lots of help and there were other key contributors (Jodorowsky, Janjetov, etc.), but the key driving force was his creative vision and he did most of the seminal stories of that publication and it's more primitive predecessors.

A lot of his stuff has been so heavily copied that it doesn't look original anymore. But it's still great science fiction and great comics - and he was largely the first to do so. Perhaps not in print, but certainly in comics, and like Will Eisner, he used sequential art to do things and tell stories that could not be told in other ways in other mediums.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 17, 2009, 05:10:45 PM
With pretty irregular updates and stories that play out slowly, I often find myself forgetting why I keep Templar, Arizona in one of my top webcomic tabs, which end up being the only ones I check even kind of regularly. Then a line like the second panel here (http://templaraz.com/?p=1200) happens and I remember exactly why I love it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on July 17, 2009, 05:47:01 PM
I tried reading Templar, Arizona. Keyword being tried. I think tvtropes calls it "Continuity Lockout."
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 20, 2009, 04:57:08 PM
Aaron Diaz does a guest strip for Kate Beaton (http://harkavagrant.com/)

Not sure how I feel about that, but I'll forgive him for the first panel at the top.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 20, 2009, 09:12:58 PM
Isn't it funny how he can take a comic that is awesome because in its simplicity it's capable of telling you what historic characters are portrayed through context, and only take historical figures from a certain field, then put their names in the title, then use their entire name at some point in the comic just to make sure you get it?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 20, 2009, 09:16:25 PM
it's funny because evolution
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 21, 2009, 03:39:12 AM
Y'all tryin' just a little too hard to hate.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 21, 2009, 06:29:21 AM
Oh, don't get me wrong, I think it contains the usual boatload of "LOOK WHO I KNOW! I READ TEH HISTREE BOUKS! SMARTER THAN UUUUUUU!!!" referential shout-outs, but (like I said) I'll give him a pass for that Charlie Darwin and 'snoopy' panel.

It's okay though. Diaz will never be able to do them sexy confusin' mermaids, so we're safe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 21, 2009, 08:04:10 AM
what
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on July 27, 2009, 10:34:32 AM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal goes Sketch Comedy (http://www.smbc-theater.com/). Tragedy ensues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0y5dHmVRIc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smbc-theater.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

Keep aiming for that sweet spot, boys.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on July 27, 2009, 12:04:48 PM
I like the fat guy.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on July 27, 2009, 01:36:42 PM
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/Awkwardracism.jpg)

Casual racism? In my webcomics?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on July 27, 2009, 06:31:43 PM
She's probably Jewish herself.  And even if she's not, who cares?  I'm Jewish and that doesn't offend me at all.

And holy shit reading that screenshot made me blind.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kayma on July 27, 2009, 07:07:16 PM
She capitalized Jew. Clearly she's showing some respect.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: JDigital on July 28, 2009, 08:12:39 AM
As long as she's not collecting potions on the sabbath.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on July 28, 2009, 10:05:15 AM
I hate it when a game gyps you on storage space like that.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Koah on July 28, 2009, 10:34:11 AM
Maybe if you weren't so niggardly with your items you wouldn't have that problem.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on July 28, 2009, 10:47:28 AM
You found the chink in my armor, I guess.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on July 28, 2009, 10:48:03 AM
Jew guys need to stop that.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: JDigital on July 28, 2009, 11:34:05 AM
This is why white mages are superior to black mages
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on July 28, 2009, 11:38:18 AM
I've always liked red mages the best, but I'm not sure why...

Nevermind, I remember. It's because of this guy:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/walt-disney.jpg)
And more directly...
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/tigerlily.jpg)


Though, I've gotta say...
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/6427.jpg)
This is supposed to be her "adult" costume? I do not know in which way they mean "adult".
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on July 31, 2009, 06:47:07 AM
Second page of Automata is up (http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/31/). They talk about the weather in it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 31, 2009, 07:11:56 AM
Sweet. :perfect:

edit: I knew this would be the better choice.  The other two were too close to material they'd already done, and this one has meat to it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on August 01, 2009, 11:32:47 PM
hiimdaisy did a Persona 4 comic! Awesome! (http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26044.html#cutid1)

(I don't know. There might be spoilers. You might not want to read it if you haven't finished the game. I haven't, so I stopped reading.)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on August 01, 2009, 11:33:09 PM
oh god kubo's face

kubo's faaaaceeeee
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 04, 2009, 08:34:32 AM
New webcomic seemingly replacing 8-Bit Theatre has been finally unveiled: How I Killed Your Master (http://www.nuklearpower.com/hikym/). Looks like it has some decent art.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on August 04, 2009, 11:55:00 AM
that's not an acceptable title font by any stretch of the imagination.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on August 04, 2009, 12:13:39 PM
oh hey black belt is alive after all :hurr:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 08, 2009, 09:47:40 AM
Penny Arcade does a comic about the best character in the Tekken universe (http://www.tekken.com/comic/). The first page is wonderful.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 08, 2009, 11:16:14 AM
Also fuck yeah flash. That is some for-real shit right there.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 09, 2009, 10:01:44 PM
So... Girl Genius... Tarvek is not going to die? What could be worse than death? Turning into a girl?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on August 09, 2009, 10:39:12 PM
classic you are hilarious

What he is saying is that he is going to cure him.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 09, 2009, 10:46:00 PM
It's Girl Genius, so there's an even chance that that's what he's really saying and an even chance that that's just what it sounds like.

I have this theory that the Foglios just tune into fan theories and then go with whatever is the least believed.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 09, 2009, 10:49:02 PM
T BB-
I had considered that interpretation, but I thought GG was on the "shit gets worse" cliffhanger instead of "our characters are seriously bad dudes" cliffhanger. I confess I do not keep careful count.

T B-
That fan theory seems highly plausible.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on August 09, 2009, 10:56:57 PM
Eh, he wouldn't be emphasizing the "not" if it were "He's gonna grow a crown of dongs" or something.  "He is not going to die" and "He is not going to die" are discrete and identifiable statements.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on August 10, 2009, 07:40:25 PM
I read American Elf and it gave me the retarded.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Nemo2342 on August 11, 2009, 10:37:07 PM
It's Girl Genius, so there's an even chance that that's what he's really saying and an even chance that that's just what it sounds like.

I have this theory that the Foglios just tune into fan theories and then go with whatever is the least believed.

I gave up trying to guess where this story is going to go a long time ago. Now I'm just along for the ride.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 11, 2009, 10:58:05 PM
So apparently he meant "I'm going to give him a blood transfer."

Also it's scary how much Klaus thinks like one of my stock villains.  Although my guy isn't technically immune to every poison, he just taught himself a neat trick that lets him re-synthesize any ailment he gets afflicted with and turn it back on the user.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 12, 2009, 05:00:49 AM
Well, he could still go stark raving mad, which is the rough equivalent of being a girl.

Yeah. I got turned down recently. :;_;:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 12, 2009, 09:48:15 AM
PROTIP: You have infinite continues.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 12, 2009, 10:30:00 AM
That would be more comforting if I had any lives and I wasn't on the castle approach.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on August 12, 2009, 10:31:17 AM
I think you just broke the metaphor.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 12, 2009, 10:38:05 AM
Pffft, some of these guys can't even get past World 1.

(After reading pagebreak) Nevermind.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 13, 2009, 07:44:29 PM
I'm not sure how the hell I managed to miss it for this long, but the Kill Fisters are all named after bosses from Ys. (http://girlyyy.com/go/info)  I knew something about them seemed odd to me.

That's some pretty hardcore esoteric, there.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 13, 2009, 08:19:46 PM
Aaaand we've gone from "He will not die!" to "I've got an idea, let's kill him!" in two strips.

Girl Genius is a rather unique experience in that way.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Nemo2342 on August 13, 2009, 08:47:22 PM
Aaaand we've gone from "He will not die!" to "I've got an idea, let's kill him!" in two strips.

Girl Genius is a rather unique experience in that way.

Well, it certainly keeps the comic from being boring or predictable.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on August 14, 2009, 06:55:51 AM
A feminist analysis of Penny Arcade's blog post from Monday. (http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/epic_battle_of_nice_guysreg_vs_common_sense_at_penny_arcade/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on August 14, 2009, 08:49:25 AM
Haha, nice read. It's been a while, but Gabe has always sort of said stupid things.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 14, 2009, 12:54:38 PM
To be fair, I really don't think he bothered to actually look at the website before shooting his mouth off.  Which, uh, may or may not make him look any better.  Either way he seems to be completely oblivious to the "These guys are really skeezy" point.

Of course claiming that this sort of thing is somehow tied to the Nice Guy epidemic is just as fucking oblivious.  I am pretty sure their clientele is more of the "wears a T-shirt saying Future Porn Star" variety.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on August 14, 2009, 07:15:35 PM
It seems like a really stupid thing to say "we have nothing to offer women" if you take "we" to mean "men." It makes perfect sense (AT LEAST TO ME :)) if you take it to mean "nerds with clinical depression."
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 16, 2009, 10:55:36 PM
Hey, you know what is pretty good?  Sin Titulo (http://www.sintitulocomic.com/2007/06/17/page-01/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 17, 2009, 03:26:17 AM
Damn, that's not bad at all.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on August 17, 2009, 08:49:47 AM
There being 84 pages released in two years is a little upsetting.  Gonna take goddamn forever to get anywhere.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 17, 2009, 08:52:03 AM
I don't know. It's one of the only webcomics I've ever seen that I'd pay money for a hard copy. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of webcomics I've ever done that for.

(Bookhunter/Freep, PBF, Get Your War On, and eventually, Rice Boy).

EDIT: Oh yeah, I want to get a copy of Lackadaisy eventually. OH NOES I MUST BE A FURRY.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 17, 2009, 11:41:14 AM
Fuck that, Lackadaisy is gorgeous.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 17, 2009, 11:42:25 AM
Fucking right it is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on August 17, 2009, 03:47:02 PM
There being 84 pages released in two years is a little upsetting.  Gonna take goddamn forever to get anywhere.

Seems to be mostly because the guy is a professional comic artist, so he puts Sin Titulo in between more pressing (paying) projects.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on August 17, 2009, 04:03:50 PM
FUCK THAT AND FUCK HIM
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on August 17, 2009, 06:37:34 PM
I don't know. It's one of the only webcomics I've ever seen that I'd pay money for a hard copy. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of webcomics I've ever done that for.

I bought vol. 8 of Girl Genius today at the Hairy T. It's the only way I'm following the story... But that's mostly because I started with vol. 1, waaaaay back before it was web-based.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kashan on August 17, 2009, 09:12:51 PM
I don't know. It's one of the only webcomics I've ever seen that I'd pay money for a hard copy. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of webcomics I've ever done that for.

I bought vol. 8 of Girl Genius today at the Hairy T. It's the only way I'm following the story... But that's mostly because I started with vol. 1, waaaaay back before it was web-based.
Heh, you frequent the Hairy Tarantula? I know the girl who works there through L5R.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 17, 2009, 10:06:55 PM
EDIT: Oh yeah, I want to get a copy of Lackadaisy eventually. OH NOES I MUST BE A FURRY.
Wait really? I have been avoiding that comic purely because I assumed it was just an excuse for furry porn and most likely sucked because of it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on August 17, 2009, 10:07:36 PM
EDIT: Oh yeah, I want to get a copy of Lackadaisy eventually. OH NOES I MUST BE A FURRY.
Wait really? I have been avoiding that comic purely because I assumed it was just an excuse for furry porn and most likely sucked because of it.
It's not a furry comic, it's just bad. Subtle difference.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on August 17, 2009, 10:54:17 PM
...in what way is it bad? I mean, if you judge a webcomic based entirely on how regularly it updates, yes, it's terrible. Otherwise? I can't think of any significant criteria that might make it even a little bit bad.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 18, 2009, 12:41:17 AM
It's pretty much the exact opposite of bad in every respect but update speed.

...I always knew there was something off about you, yyler. ::(:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 18, 2009, 03:22:13 AM
... is someone actually talking shit about Lackadaisy? (http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/archive.php)

SON YOU'D BEST BE CAREFUL WITH THAT MOUTH *cracks knuckles*
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 22, 2009, 06:31:00 PM
oh hey, it turns out that Sexy Losers (http://sexylosers.com/254.html) has been updating every once in a few months. As far as I was aware, the site wasn't even on the internet anymore.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 22, 2009, 06:33:39 PM
Much like everyone's other favorite "we act like we're smart but really just like looking at handdrawn boobs" site, it died for a while, then decided it didn't cost any money to support because no one went there anymore and came back.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on August 22, 2009, 11:26:34 PM
... is someone actually talking shit about Lackadaisy? (http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/archive.php)

SON YOU'D BEST BE CAREFUL WITH THAT MOUTH *cracks knuckles*

Man, don't be hatin'. It's competent, as webcomics go, but the world isn't going to end just because a couple people disagree about the significance of its merits.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 23, 2009, 05:13:32 AM
MY POSTS IN ALLCAPS ARE ENTIRELY SERIOUS.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 23, 2009, 05:44:51 AM
NEWBIE TOTALLY GETS THAT! WHY DO YOU THINK HE MADE A SERIOUS AND RESPECTFUL REBUTTAL TO YOUR ALLCAPS?

In newbie's defense, that wasn't a post in "allcaps," and more importantly: it is a good point to make for the one of us who takes internet too seriously.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 23, 2009, 10:51:29 AM
INTERNET IS SERIOUS BIZNESS.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on August 23, 2009, 04:23:19 PM
Don't gotta tell me that, dog.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on August 27, 2009, 12:36:00 PM
After a long hiatus, Demon Planet (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/jchastain/demonplanet/series.php) returns. Sort of.

As a sequel/spinoff based on the Monster Killers arc (http://monsterkillers.com/). Features the return of Tiny UFO. Space Dracula has not yet made an appearance though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji on August 31, 2009, 10:28:58 AM
Huh... so the artist for Mac Hall and Three Panel Soul experiences mild synesthesia (http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2009-08-31)? This actually explains a bit.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 31, 2009, 10:41:38 AM
Huh... so the artist for Mac Hall and Three Panel Soul experiences mild synesthesia (http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2009-08-31)? This actually explains a bit.

LOL they just discovered the War Photographer video.  :glee:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on August 31, 2009, 12:05:36 PM
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/logo09.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on August 31, 2009, 12:15:01 PM
the terrorists are really reaching now
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on August 31, 2009, 02:58:49 PM
Archive Binge (http://www.archivebinge.net/) looks like a very useful service.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on August 31, 2009, 03:07:47 PM
Set up by friends of the Irregular Webcomic guy?

That figures.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on August 31, 2009, 03:26:28 PM
This is pretty telling.

Irregular Webcomic!: 2408 strips (Photos of miniatures)
Arthur, King of Time and Space: 1929 strips (MSPaint circles and line art)
Legostar Galactica: 1798 strips (Photos of legos)
Thinkin' Lincoln: 929 strips (Floating heads on a white background)
Brick House: 747 strips (MORE photos of legos)
Casey & Andy: 666 strips (SORT OF art, but no longer updating.)
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: 582 strips (C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!)

Though looking at the rest of this list I think just the people who set this up are basically gay for not-drawn comics.  Nevermind.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on August 31, 2009, 04:41:40 PM
Wow, that'd be great for Hitmen for Destiny. And Achewood. Too bad they don't have a feed for either.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on August 31, 2009, 05:13:05 PM
my first thought was "oh hey, i will finally read achewood this way"

my second thought was fuck that site when i saw the list of supported comics
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on August 31, 2009, 07:50:04 PM
I put Achewood in my RSS feeder.  Works pretty nice.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on August 31, 2009, 10:28:33 PM
I guess Gone with the Blastwave is really dead. Like, for really-reals. At least, at the moment the site is down and the guy doesn't much seem to give a shit about that. Totally been there.

Meanwhile, I wanted to show it to someone right now and I can't. Stupid fucking internet. You may be nuke proof, but DARPA couldn't make you immune to angst.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on August 31, 2009, 10:33:42 PM
To be fair the guy in charge of that died on the shitter.

Well, the guy disguised as him died on the shitter.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: on August 31, 2009, 10:35:43 PM
To be fair the guy in charge of that died on the shitter.

Well, the guy disguised as him died on the shitter.
:wat:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Catloaf on September 01, 2009, 12:40:24 AM
Andy Kaufman?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on September 01, 2009, 03:02:54 AM
I guess Gone with the Blastwave is really dead. Like, for really-reals. At least, at the moment the site is down and the guy doesn't much seem to give a shit about that. Totally been there.

What? Aw shit.

I only check it once every month or two because the updates are so slow, but damned if it wasn't one of my favourites.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Fortinbras on September 01, 2009, 05:54:28 AM
the artist for Mac Hall and Three Panel Soul
:pop:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 05, 2009, 01:02:03 PM
Oh look. Diaz made a shirt from his guest comic. (http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=DC-DARWIN&Category_Code=ALLSHIRTS)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on September 05, 2009, 02:35:52 PM
I will not begrudge a man doing his job. (His job is selling shirts.)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on September 12, 2009, 03:29:59 PM
Today's achewood is the greatest end to an arc pretty much ever.

Cartilage Head has problems, seriously.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on September 12, 2009, 04:48:58 PM
It confused me more than anything.  I thought Roast Beef was dying?  How is he a coward?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on September 12, 2009, 04:51:21 PM
He ran from his own death. The dying man was himself, and he deserted the dying man.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on September 12, 2009, 04:52:27 PM
But.. but he was... foiugekl32j.3,


The parts with Ray and Theodor were boss, though.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 12, 2009, 05:33:25 PM
He saw the burning wreckage of Ray's car and opted to just go through with the silly chute thing (presumably he just flumped out the other end with the golf balls and left through the front door) and hope his absence wasn't noticed rather than leave and be obligated to either attempt to get some help or admit that he saw it and did nothing.

The whole thing does render the original inscrutable one-off with Cartilage Head bit into a weird running gag though.  Which is a little dumb, but I can't care too much because I'm too art-blind to appreciate the original bit anyway.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on September 12, 2009, 05:37:14 PM
The chute thing is where he came from though.  I got the impression that when he opened the door it just went to his bedroom with Molly.  That's why I was confused.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on September 12, 2009, 05:46:40 PM
Beef was given the choice to go back to bed or go help Ray and Téodore. He probably figured he'd been through enough shit that day that if there ever was a time when he totally deserved to sleep in his bed next to his wife then this was it.

CH is just a pretentious douchebag who get his rocks off fucking with people's instincts.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on September 14, 2009, 10:57:23 PM
With a face like that I'm prepared to accept all manner of fuckuppedness from cartilage head. Especially an intense desire to freak people out and artfully illustrate their shortcomings, though the dude could probably find a new way to beat that drum.

Also, I hadn't considered the possibility that Beef was the man who was being deserted by Beef. I'm pretty sure you just read it wrong, but damn, that'd be a nice turnaround and maybe even something good to learn for a guy who clearly has a lot of hate on for his own self.

That apparently not being the case, yeah, CH can get ten kinds of fucked.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on September 15, 2009, 05:02:34 AM
Your activities are so poorly conveyed
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 15, 2009, 08:18:38 AM
I think the latest strip of is Chris's way of informing everybody that they ought not read that much into a string of random macabre silliness.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on September 15, 2009, 08:28:11 AM
Or maybe that he just doesn't care about things anymore.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on September 15, 2009, 10:56:50 AM
(http://zedpower.dreamhosters.com/images/misc/onstadstand.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on September 17, 2009, 07:38:13 PM
Archive Binge's offerings (http://www.archivebinge.net/comics.php) are looking a bit less like the internet's entertainment dumpster these days.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on September 22, 2009, 07:46:14 PM
Gone With The Blastwave is back up on on a slightly different URL (http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php).

Apparently, while he hates doing the comic and we'll probably never see new strips, he's not one of those emo bitches who wants to burn his life's work. He just has really awful trouble with webhosts.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on October 14, 2009, 09:39:37 AM
I binged on Dead Winter (http://deadwinter.cc/index.htm) last night and into my bookmarks it goes.

Although I wish Elizabeth would be dumped into a river.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 25, 2009, 06:32:03 PM
Took me a minute. (http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/256446.html)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on November 10, 2009, 06:24:57 AM
I'm taking Menage a 3 off my reading list. It's become clear to me that the creators are never going to let Gary be happy and will torture him in perpetuity through Zii's constant cockblocking.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on November 10, 2009, 07:22:56 AM
Didn't that series turn into Ranma 1/2 a long time ago or something?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on November 10, 2009, 09:18:31 AM
Menage a 3 is an odd thing.  It's basically your average furry webcomic, except they're not furries.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on November 10, 2009, 09:40:15 AM
I'm taking Menage a 3 off my reading list. It's become clear to me that the creators are never going to let Gary be happy and will torture him in perpetuity through Zii's constant cockblocking.

Zii is the French blonde, right? She doesn't seem to be doing a very good job.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Rosencrantz on November 10, 2009, 10:25:56 AM
Zii's the little punk chick.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on November 10, 2009, 10:29:18 AM
Ah, well, nevermind.

ANYWAY THAT'S BORING LET'S TALK ABOUT DR. MCNINJA. I finally got around to reading it. Kind of reminds me Atomic Robo.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on November 10, 2009, 11:23:34 AM
Dr. McNinja is great but it is real annoying to read at the rate of one page every other day. I find it's best to just ignore it for a month or so and then binge.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on November 10, 2009, 11:25:14 AM
But then you have to deal with the knowledge that there is Dr. McNinja out there to read that you haven't read, and that's just torture.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 10, 2009, 12:03:04 PM
There can never be unread McNinja.

Just as there cannot be unread Homestuck.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Rosencrantz on November 10, 2009, 12:12:23 PM
I wish I had skipped the current McNinja storyline and just read it all in one go. There's too many pages of nothing but motorcycle riding.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Alex on November 10, 2009, 01:04:38 PM
I'm taking Menage a 3 off my reading list. It's become clear to me that the creators are never going to let Gary be happy and will torture him in perpetuity through Zii's constant cockblocking and generally jerkass douchebag behavior.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 10, 2009, 04:19:17 PM
DN proved that he has more sense than me because he avoids that strip. Mostly I hate (and by extension, hate myself for reading) Ma3 because of the apparent contempt it has for its target audience. Who I don't really want to numbered among. I need a new set of updates tuesday/thursday/saturday comics.

EDIT:
Also yes, it did turn into Ranma 1/2 at one point:
http://www.menagea3.net/d/20091103.html (http://www.menagea3.net/d/20091103.html)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on November 10, 2009, 04:47:45 PM
I need a new set of updates tuesday/thursday/saturday comics.

(http://daniel.suckramento.org/panflute-flowchart.gif)

This is more applicable than you think.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on November 15, 2009, 02:12:33 PM
Halfway through today's Achewood, I suddenly thought "oh my god he's sick of it. this is how it ends." I actually put my hand on the screen to block off the last panel so I couldn't even glimpse the words "THE END" before I read the rest of the strip.

i was wrong tho
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 15, 2009, 07:35:20 PM
Nope, I think Chris Onstead decided today was just a good day to be depressing the hell out of everyone.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 15, 2009, 08:48:11 PM
Oh, is this one of those 24-hour days?  That explains it.

Honestly I always feel a twinge of excitement when I see a webcomic end.  It's a feeling like "CONGRATULATIONS ON BEATING THIS COMIC, ENTER YOUR INITIALS PLEASE."
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on November 15, 2009, 09:43:37 PM
I always cry.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on November 20, 2009, 06:32:05 PM
Wick's face as he takes the tire iron from Rocky is what reminds me that good webcomics actually do exist. (http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/art/Lackadaisy-Grindstone-142724206)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 20, 2009, 06:36:44 PM
Turns out I always thought Lackadaisy was a different furry comic of the same style and era that was about a whore house or something.

Maybe now I'll give it a chance.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on November 20, 2009, 06:42:40 PM
Halfway through today's Achewood, I suddenly thought "oh my god he's sick of it. this is how it ends." I actually put my hand on the screen to block off the last panel so I couldn't even glimpse the words "THE END" before I read the rest of the strip.

i was wrong tho

I got the exact same vibe, esp. when I noticed assetbar's been turned off.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 20, 2009, 06:50:33 PM
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=645

read this, and the following.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on November 20, 2009, 06:51:04 PM
Caught up on five years of Girl Genius.

Quality stuff.

But uh, now to wait another five years for anything palpable to build up. I can only handle actively following one work that unfolds over the course of my life...
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on November 20, 2009, 07:52:10 PM
Why do you think I follow it in print only?

Also: Guilded Age. (http://guildedage.net/) It's as if they took the adventure style of Looking For Group and added the salty irreverence of Oglaf but set it in the steampunk milieu.
and the alt text of xkcd
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 22, 2009, 08:28:45 AM
For all of Dave's mad skills, his bro is a goddamn super ninja (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002771).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on November 27, 2009, 06:46:52 PM
So I guess Jade is just completely insane.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 27, 2009, 07:44:52 PM
Nah, just narcoleptic. :nyoro~n:

Spoke too soon.  She's a nutter.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on November 28, 2009, 09:35:52 AM
She's kinda psychic, though, so it's possible she's actually hearing her grandfather talk to her.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on November 30, 2009, 09:48:21 PM
Goddamn, y'all, but after having more than a few brewskis with the real deal Game Bros I can't help but admire the verisimiliwatsis of this reprething (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001942).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Guild on November 30, 2009, 10:25:26 PM
name-dropper
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on December 04, 2009, 12:57:49 AM
Have I mentioned recently that I think Lackadaisy Cats (http://lackadaisycats.com/index.php) is easily the best webcomic ever? And that I actually mean it?

Because I do.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on December 04, 2009, 04:17:24 AM
FUCKIN' RIGHT IT IS. :hi5:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 04, 2009, 05:06:51 AM
No, no.  MSPaint Adventures is the best webcomic.  Lackadaisy Cats is the best comic on the web.

In all fairness, MSPA is in very rare company, 'though still very awesome.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 08, 2009, 09:48:27 AM
Apparently Jade got her dog from Dr. Manhattan. (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002880)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Sharkey on December 08, 2009, 02:31:07 PM
Actually, I think her dog might be that Lavos bit that's still visible in silhouette as you defeat the Chrono Trigger game tape. I was wondering where that thing got off to.

Part of the music and the rapid background changing near the end is at least a little reminiscent of that, anyway.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on December 09, 2009, 10:21:05 AM
I complain about the plot in Gunnerkrigg Court, but I always enjoyed the art.  That was until the terrifying she-beast in the upper right panel of today's comic (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: rootdown on December 09, 2009, 11:49:45 AM
For those of you that are local to San Francisco, the Cartoon Art Museum is putting on a webcomics mini-con/exhibit this Saturday.  I'll be there for a bit if anyone wants to say hello.

Details here: http://cartoonart.org/2009/11/monsters-of-webcomics-webcomic-con-2009/
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on December 09, 2009, 04:40:24 PM
Onstad! Beaton!  Gurewitch!  Gambrell!  Those names are all names I would love to meet.  Too bad I live in Texas were webcomics go to die.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on December 09, 2009, 05:01:59 PM
mostly because scott kurtz eats them
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on December 09, 2009, 05:23:02 PM
Someday I will kill him and eat webcomics instead.

EDIT:
When I do, I will say this:
pmnnpmnpm'd
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on December 09, 2009, 05:27:05 PM
true story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcH3-6YWjLk&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on December 09, 2009, 06:24:54 PM
Onstad! Beaton! Gurewitch! Gambrell! Those names are all names I would love to meet.  Too bad I live in Texas were webcomics go to die.

I see none of those names on that list.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on December 09, 2009, 07:18:01 PM
mostly because scott kurtz eats them

...

...

nnnngh...

NNNNNNNNGH

NNNNNNNNNNNNNN

DEEP IN THE GUUUUUUUUUT OF TEXAAAS

sorry guys
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on December 09, 2009, 08:42:03 PM
clap clap clap clap
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on December 12, 2009, 08:12:23 AM
I don't know if any of you follow The Meek (http://www.meekcomic.com/), but it seems to be a very promising comic. Enough pages are up that I'm comfortable in letting the book speak for itself.

His updates are somewhat slow (nothing new in webcomic land there), but the quality of work is worth it and this does not (so far) appear to be a case 'slow' equates to 'irregular', 'fickle', or 'liable to disappaear'.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on December 12, 2009, 01:25:16 PM
I remember when Disposable Ninja posted that.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on December 12, 2009, 05:30:21 PM
Clearly I didn't  :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on December 12, 2009, 06:06:02 PM
Yeah, that was back when the comic was about a naked teenaged girl.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on December 15, 2009, 04:07:50 PM
Congratulations "We just stopped time and did it here in front of you." (http://starslip.com/2009/12/15/setting-the-mood/), you are the... punchline of the week!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Kazz on December 15, 2009, 10:15:00 PM
i tried to read that comic but my eyes went all wooooooooooooooooooooooo and gus was like "SHAWN"
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 16, 2009, 01:36:24 AM
Guys, did you know that Dawn of Time (http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php) is a good webcomic? It's got dinosaurs! And good art! And a main character who is basically Ayla!

It's the best comic about a caveman I read, very narrowly beating out Thog Infinitron (http://www.thoginfinitron.com/), which may be more to y'all's liking. It is about a cyborg caveman.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Healy on December 28, 2009, 03:30:55 PM
Chainsawsuit is so good you guys.
(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8939/chainsawsuitchildishweb.gif)

Quote from: Kris Straub
i ain’t saying i know a particular comic series like this

i’m saying i know about one million
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on December 28, 2009, 05:16:02 PM
 :perfect:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 01, 2010, 04:24:14 PM
Dr. McNinja is not the oldest son.

He is in the third pirate costume.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: LaserBeing on January 01, 2010, 04:53:18 PM
OR IS HE

DUN-DUN-DUNNNN
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on January 09, 2010, 12:43:51 PM
WOW the first 200 or so pages of Questionable Content make me want to punch Jeph Jacques square in the dick
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on January 09, 2010, 01:37:20 PM
How about the every page of Questionable Content?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 09, 2010, 02:06:21 PM
I used to love Questionable Content.


Then I saw real boobs.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on January 09, 2010, 02:42:12 PM
How about the every page of Questionable Content?

 (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg) (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg) (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on January 09, 2010, 02:42:32 PM
Didn't the sum of the boards recommend against going to that webcomic?
Oh well, in my books it still rates better than M3.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on January 09, 2010, 03:22:03 PM
I don't know what M3 is, but I'm more than willing to take your word for it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Norondor on January 09, 2010, 03:58:49 PM
Menage a 3, the only comic so bad that i'll chop off your dick if you read it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on January 09, 2010, 04:02:46 PM
 (http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
I miss my foreskin.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on January 09, 2010, 04:04:26 PM
Do you lose your foreskin if you just read the cover or what
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on January 09, 2010, 04:13:06 PM
The dick off-chopping is really more of a slow, painful, peeling. :ohgod:

On the other hand, a recent one had fucking someone in the ear be the punchline.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on January 09, 2010, 05:21:30 PM
Didn't the sum of the boards recommend against going to that webcomic?
Oh well, in my books it still rates better than M3.

I dunno, there's something about it I kind of like. I love this character (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1575), as sort of a Monk-tan, but honestly it's really hard to care about everyone else. She's the only one that seems even remotely unique. The other ones are just palette swaps.

The fact that they are constantly keeping it safe is really annoying and boring. Any time anyone says anything provocative, be it a joke or whatever, they always go out of their way to define it as intentionally ironic. It saps out any possible fun you might have an replaces it with the smuggest fucks in the history of webcomicry sucking each other's dicks.

Like there's absolutely no conflict anywhere.

The desperate need to identify the cast as indie is pretty annoying too. Expressing that you're aware of how pointless all of hipsterdom is does not give you the thumbs-up to go ahead and be a shameless hipster. You've just found a whole new level of elitism, only one where you're following up every statement with a knowing wink under the guise of a terrible punchline.

I think Rygaron might be spot-on here
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on January 09, 2010, 05:26:31 PM
Sometimes it's funny but you have to wade through an awful lot of "My Dad Shot Himself, So My Ovaries Broke" to get there.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on January 09, 2010, 05:30:31 PM
That's the thing, though. I'd like there to be more conflict and fun drama, but Jacques' idea of shaking things up is one angsty confession followed by thirty pages of friends consoling them, characters coming to terms and returning to the routine. He's terrified to change things too much.

As a result, it's not particularly funny or interesting, but it is comfortable. It's a pleasant read.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on January 09, 2010, 08:39:59 PM
Plus, it's yet another unfunny gamer webcomic.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on January 09, 2010, 10:43:28 PM
QC is really more realistic in the sense that people don't hang out with people they hate, or endure a childish attention-span-deprieved frat boy just because it's funny. It's a half dozen people that have a basic understanding and respect of each other like most regular relationships.

I think the only comic that portrays realistic abrasive relationships is Achewood. YOU ARE TERRIBLE TODD GO AWAY
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 09, 2010, 10:50:08 PM
I'm a sucker for comics that don't go anywhere (as long as they don't feel like they're trying and failing to go somewhere) or depict anything other than not-completely-obnoxious characters being characterized at each other. I have no expectations for it, so I am never disappointed. It's worth the 150 seconds per week it takes to come up in my RSS aggregator.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 15, 2010, 09:41:01 AM
Penny Arcade casually introduces a game concept a hundred-thousand times more interesting than Dante's Inferno (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/15/).

I would play that so hard.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on January 15, 2010, 11:07:46 AM
You're just going to have to watch it (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1297471/) instead.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zach on January 15, 2010, 11:15:49 AM
 :nyoro~n: I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Laser Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I came here to hunt lava-whales, not my commander's vengeance. How many space-barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Laser Ahab? It will not fetch thee much in our NeoNantucket market.

 :over9000: NeoNantucket market! Hoot! But come closer, Starbuck; thou requirest a little lower layer. If lavabucks' to be the measurer, man, and the accountants have computed their great counting-house the Undersphere, by girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then, let me tell thee, that my vengeance will fetch a great premium in the flaming cockles of my heart!

 :rage: Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on January 18, 2010, 12:02:26 AM
Alright I'm still inexplicably reading this thing. It hasn't gotten any better. I should probably stop I guess but IN ANY EVENT, an unexpected and amazing guest strip from Dinosaur Comic's Ryan North showed up (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=674)!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on January 18, 2010, 07:20:48 AM
Alright I'm still inexplicably reading this thing.
I can explain that part: It only costs your time, and its better than stopping to think... think about your life... your sad, sad life... your mother wanted you to be a doctor... and you failed completely... and... and... :endit:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on January 25, 2010, 05:06:17 AM
So, uh, does anyone else think the Gunnerkrigg Court on Friday has courage wolf in it? (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=673)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Healy on January 25, 2010, 10:17:42 PM
There is a teeny bit of resemblance there but I think it's just coincidence.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on January 27, 2010, 01:41:27 PM
If Erfworld doesn't transform into "Gobwin Knob and the remaining free peoples vs Faq's legions of the dead", I'll be mildly disappointed.

Then probably undisappointed soon afterwards with whatever awesome thing comes up instead.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Healy on January 27, 2010, 02:44:13 PM
Once again, Kris Straub tackles the hard-hitting webcomics issues of today. (http://chainsawsuit.com/2010/01/27/dont-forget-to-vote/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on January 28, 2010, 03:33:43 AM
Axe Cop (http://axecop.com/index.php/page/episode_1) is a comic written by a 5 year old and drawn by his 29 year old brother. It stars Axe Cop, a cop with an axe.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Friday on January 28, 2010, 04:09:38 AM
So basically this is the best thing
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on January 28, 2010, 04:15:58 AM
I think that it's almost frightening how close that comes to a regular superhero rag.

Regardless, that's AWESOME.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: JDigital on January 28, 2010, 04:31:47 AM
So basically this is the best thing

Or it would be if the comic worked like normal webcomics and didn't run away from my mouse cursor.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on January 28, 2010, 04:52:10 AM
Awesome comic with asinine interface!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lottel on January 28, 2010, 09:29:24 AM
AxeCop is amazing.
And since I use the arrow keys to move the picture around, it didn't bother me at all.

Plus, SOCKARANG
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Friday on January 28, 2010, 03:11:47 PM
he cannot be beaten as he has the power of good bad christmas on his side
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on January 28, 2010, 03:13:13 PM
on reddit the guy says he's going to get rid of the flash soon so then this comic will be 0% bad
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on January 28, 2010, 03:13:46 PM
Also guys there is a no-flash interface and if you click download it just shows you a full size png image
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on January 28, 2010, 03:17:05 PM
So basically this is the best thing
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on January 28, 2010, 04:40:14 PM
Man, I just read them again.

This IS the best thing.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Healy on January 28, 2010, 09:58:07 PM
I have only seen one page of Axecop and I'm already wondering why there aren't more comics like Axecop.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: yyler on January 28, 2010, 11:35:51 PM
Healy I linked to a mirror IN ANOTHER DIMENSION!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on January 29, 2010, 01:56:53 AM
Apparently in the time between I saw this linked and being able to actually see it on a real browser the page has been popularity-bombed out of existence.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Healy on January 29, 2010, 03:16:53 PM
Healy I linked to a mirror IN ANOTHER DIMENSION!

Oh man now I'm wondering why everything forever isn't more like Axecop.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on February 01, 2010, 09:43:02 PM
Daaaang, How I killed your master (http://www.nuklearpower.com/hikym/) just got pretty.

I've been following it since the beginning even though it's predictable and cliché, wishing all along it was as interesting as it looked, but now I'm thinking it might be worth sticking around even if just for the art.

...I wonder if those guys are Yellow Turbans. I probably have the time period all wrong; I don't know much about Chinese history outside of the events in RotK (so, not much at all, given the nature of the book).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 01, 2010, 10:07:03 PM
Organized styles of Kung Fu didn't appear until about 300 years after the Three Kingdoms period, so it's unlikely, though Hua Tuo (notable for being executed after suggesting that Cao Cao needed brain surgery, which he did, and so he died of BRAIN PROBLEMS) did organize a small tournament called the "animal games".

Given the prevalence of MASTURBATING MONKEY STYLE shit in the story though, I'd say it's well after the widespread acceptance of Shaolin and T'ai Chi.  Also I think the utter genericness is really part of the charm.  For some reason chop-socky crap is just better the less inventive it tries to be, and the very fact that it's WEBCOMIC CHINESE OPERA is fresh enough.

I apologize for Brian Clevinger way more than I'd like to.  Way, way, way more than I'd like to.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on February 01, 2010, 10:10:41 PM
You really shouldn't. I respect a fellow shyster for making such a decent profit off his scam, but he really did help start the terrible idea that the best part of telling a story is doing so in a really long, monotonous style so that you can extend your time spent being worshiped for telling it.

Or at least doing so on the internet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: rootdown on February 07, 2010, 02:31:28 AM
guys every once in a while I get a trickle of hits from this forum, so whichever one of you is still reading my comic (which is right now Sad Cartoons), thank you for your patronage.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Healy on February 07, 2010, 07:12:07 PM
I just read all the archives of it! It's pretty good! One thing that bugged me a bit is that some of the inking seemed a bit "harsh," for lack of a better word. But that could just be me.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on February 08, 2010, 12:26:56 PM
root your comic is the greatest
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 10, 2010, 07:48:01 PM
So why isn't Chuck Goodrich terrified of ninjas too?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 11, 2010, 09:55:46 PM
The house special is gang-rape. (http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/02/12/how-i-killed-your-master-040/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on February 13, 2010, 09:43:23 PM
Not only has Gone With The Blastwave actually updated, but he's even threatening monthly updates. (http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php)

!!!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 13, 2010, 09:47:20 PM
Get out of here!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: JDigital on February 14, 2010, 02:33:39 PM
10' by 10' Toon' (http://www.10x10toon.com/), a D&D comic.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on February 14, 2010, 03:36:13 PM
The jokes seem kinda stale.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on February 14, 2010, 08:22:36 PM
Kinda stale? This is worse than anything John Kovalics ever got published in the back pages of Dragon Magazine.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on February 14, 2010, 08:36:02 PM
I was being polite.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on February 14, 2010, 09:12:52 PM
Wait a minute...

Hey! No wonder - he had a comic in Dragon.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on February 15, 2010, 06:30:43 AM
So did Phil Foglio. It doesn't mean anything.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 16, 2010, 09:42:48 PM
God I love Higgs. (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100217)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 20, 2010, 07:41:12 AM
Looks like 8BT is finally reaching an actual conclusion.

And it's all thanks to Preist!  Best class ever.  Specializes in praying, obviously.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on February 20, 2010, 08:45:22 AM
That's a hell of a callback to a joke made in the first hundred comics.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on February 20, 2010, 11:56:51 AM
As much as I loved the "And then Fighter just woke up" ending, I have to admit that "HEY GUYS REMEMBER YEARS AGO WHEN THIS WAS FUNNY?" is the more proper note to go out on.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Niku on March 04, 2010, 02:24:45 AM
shit

just

got

real (http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on March 04, 2010, 03:51:01 AM
A book of Anime Club?

I am intrigued.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on March 04, 2010, 09:17:09 AM
Part 4 of Anime Club really blew me away.  Before I found it amusing and fun, but with four it suddenly jumped into that territory of earnest, deep storytelling.  Suddenly the characters were becoming more than just goofy stereotypes and were fleshing out how they felt and how their various histories.  And it's still fucking hilarious.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 04, 2010, 07:55:52 PM
Goddamn do I ever love Lackadaisy. (http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/063/5/9/Lackadaisy_Cacophony_by_tracyjb.jpg)

EDIT: and Kate Beaton. (http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/batchcanadasm.png)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on March 04, 2010, 08:35:30 PM
I love that first one to death.  Also Kate Beaton is making statues of the fat pony. (http://twitpic.com/16nvv6)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on March 04, 2010, 10:05:01 PM
Oh finally THAT'S what she really looks like.

I was beginning to think she was a crude drawing in real life.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on March 08, 2010, 04:09:05 PM
So Achewood has more or less become a premium comic. As far as I can tell, Onstad updates every other week and then spends the rest of his time updating in his premium section. I understand that this is like, his job now, but his comic is only good enough to have a premium section in the first place because of the audience he built from a free comic. I hate it when webcomic authors do this.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on March 08, 2010, 04:39:18 PM
If you like the comic, go ahead and pay for it.  If you don't, don't.  It's business.  Just don't bitch about it or try to claim that 1/5 of a monthly WoW subscription is too much money.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on March 08, 2010, 04:45:21 PM
Well, if any webcomic's worth paying for, it's Achewood.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on March 08, 2010, 05:13:33 PM
So Achewood has more or less become a premium comic. As far as I can tell, Onstad updates every other week and then spends the rest of his time updating in his premium section. I understand that this is like, his job now, but his comic is only good enough to have a premium section in the first place because of the audience he built from a free comic. I hate it when webcomic authors do this.

No, it really hasn't. The Achewood fanflow gets updated just about as often as the actual strip does; it's just that he usually posts two or three things more or less simultaneously whenever he updates, and half of those are just previews of upcoming strips or merchandise that's going to be appearing in the store soon.

You might think I'm joking. Let's compare the month of February: he posted five comic strips. 02/02, 02/06, 02/16, 02/22, 02/28.

Here are the fanflow updates for February.
02/02—New Strip: Two Hearts Beat As One
02/06—New Strip: Doppelganger
02/06—Round up of loose ends! (miscellaneous drawings and text; maybe consider this Half A Comic)
02/11—a powerpoint slideshow he presented at some talk somewhere
02/16—New Strip: Phillipe, Entrepreneur
02/16—a depiction of Ray wearing Shiatsu Donkey Weights
02/16—planning sketches for the construction of the 02/16 strip
02/22—New Strip: Shirley Temple
02/22—oblique joke revolving around an altered screenshot of Twitter's adspace
02/22—what basically amounts to a Roast Beef blog entry
02/23—You know those jumbles in newspapers that are offensively easy? That involve, like, six individual words, which (when solved) will give you the six letters to a seventh word? Ray made one, and that's what premium members are paying for today.
02/28—New Strip: Find Something You Like and Copy It
02/28—what basically amounts to a Ray blog entry

Cut the new strips (which were posted simultaneously to their appearance on the main site), and that's 8 updates. Four of the remainder are almost contemptuously vacuous. Of the remaining four, two are basically just some stuff Onstad had lying around. That leaves two entries of actual substance, but are actually just blog updates behind a pay wall.

Yeah, so I don't know what the fuck Onstad's up to, either. Some of the subscribers are kind of hoping he's secretly putting his animation plans that he'd mentioned about a year ago into effect. Otherwise I think we're all starting to feel a bit like rubes.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on March 08, 2010, 05:41:08 PM
This reminds me that I meant to figure out why I had an 8$ yearly recurring paypal payment to Achewater Publishing that just went off. I guess that's from when I subscribed to the subscriber-only archive (http://achewood.com/archived_edition.php) (why the hell does that even still exist anyway now that the fanflow's there?), but that thing is actually 12$.

I gotta e-mail the 'stad and figure out what exactly that eight bucks bought me.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 08, 2010, 06:43:59 PM
I forget where I got the link (I think from The Meek), but Sailor Twain (http://sailortwain.com/) has proved to be surprisingly excellent.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on March 08, 2010, 06:56:32 PM
Aww.  I was expecting something completely different.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on March 08, 2010, 07:41:53 PM
Yeah I don't begrudge anybody for doing a full-premium webcomic.  Those guys don't owe you shit.

Charging a premium and not delivering is pretty :whoops: of course though.  I wouldn't put it over Onstad's general sense of humor to be doing it on purpose too.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 08, 2010, 08:25:32 PM
Aww.  I was expecting something completely different.

I probably expected the same thing!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on March 08, 2010, 09:31:08 PM
The internet has conditioned me to expect something very specific when "Sailor" is capitalized and followed by an identifier as part of a name of something, okay
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lottel on March 08, 2010, 11:48:54 PM
Aww.  I was expecting something completely different.

I probably expected the same thing!

Was it Mark Twain dressed as Sailor Moon being silly as well as clever?
Because I'd read the shit out of that and was severely disappointed when I clicked the link.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on March 09, 2010, 04:06:13 AM
When I was in high school, I made a comic about the founders of Bolshevism as Sailor Scouts. Imagine a sailor scout with Lenin's or Trotsky's face. 

No, I was not one of those high school socialists.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on March 13, 2010, 05:47:31 AM
I'm sorry, Dr. McNinja, but this is the worst panel layout imaginable (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p40). 15 perfectly aligned tiny little drawings? That's almost too much work to read. Not to mention that the previous page only had two panels (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p39). You could easily stuck the first four panels onto the ass end of page 39, which would balance things out and also would've created a sense of suspense.

ADDENDUM: Oh Bartholomew! (http://nedroid.com/2010/03/bartholomevi/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 23, 2010, 09:21:35 AM
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/2010-03-09-Page-3.jpg)

AWESOME HOSPITAL (http://www.awesomehospital.com)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on March 25, 2010, 02:51:24 AM
Hey look more emoticons. (http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/27081.html#cutid1)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on March 25, 2010, 03:25:44 AM
Where? Behind that bizarre and ultimately unfulfilling "webcomic?"
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on April 07, 2010, 07:37:34 PM
Kate Beaton did a guest strip for PA, which is not up yet, but will be soon. (http://beatonna.livejournal.com/133771.html)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on April 07, 2010, 07:41:18 PM
Kate Beaton did a guest strip for PA, which is not up yet, but will be soon. (http://beatonna.livejournal.com/133771.html)

If by "is not up yet" you mean "was put up Monday". (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/4/5/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on April 07, 2010, 07:54:24 PM
On one hand, I look dumb now.

On the other hand, I got to see the Kate Beaton strip without having to wait any longer.

You win some, you lose some.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on April 22, 2010, 09:33:26 PM
Did... Girl Genius's current arc end on a literal Deus ex Machina?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on April 23, 2010, 05:46:26 AM
Awww, that Achewood.  I just got something in my eye is all... :sadpanda:

I'm also reading Awesome Hospital (http://www.awesomehospital.com/) lately, but I can't really tell you why.  I like Chris Sims, he's a funny writer, but this strip has been about constantly trying to make everything wacky funny, to the point where it just sort of goes mundane.  But if it's your style a thing, there it is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on April 29, 2010, 09:22:35 AM
Awww, that Achewood.  I just got something in my eye is all... :sadpanda:

I'm also reading Awesome Hospital (http://www.awesomehospital.com/) lately, but I can't really tell you why.  I like Chris Sims, he's a funny writer, but this strip has been about constantly trying to make everything wacky funny, to the point where it just sort of goes mundane.  But if it's your style a thing, there it is.

Ah, I thought it was just me. That's a relief.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on April 30, 2010, 01:38:54 PM
Chris Onstad's world is strange and marvelous. (http://twitpic.com/1jotp3)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on May 06, 2010, 10:22:41 PM
I once saw a picture of him (Onstad, that is) and Jon Stewart.

Meanwhile, it only just occurred to me that pesterchum online handles are analogous to genetic codes, which led me to the wiki (http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Online_handles_and_genetics) for more info.

What amazes me is that this isn't just a case of constellation (http://dissimulationdisco.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-am-conspiracy-apparently.html); thanks to all the weird plot shit (http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Weird_plot_shit), we can see the powder-burns of Chekhov's statue hand (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002657) (10/11/09) long before the gun is fired into a tornado (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003049) (01/14/2010). The web of recurring gags (http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Ongoing_gags) and interconnected concepts is mind-boggling.

Homestuck is an internally-consistent sculpture of enormous size and complexity, and I have no idea how AH could start showing close-ups of disparate sections so quickly. It'd be inspiring if it weren't kind of horrifying.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on May 11, 2010, 08:23:36 AM
What was the deal with the blue ribbon in the latest Penny Arcade "Lookouts" arc? I don't get it.

No, scratch that. I don't get ANY of the Lookouts stuff PA has done thus far. The last one was muddy and poorly composed. I don't care HOW much praise was heaped on the artist, clarity is very important in comics and especially if you're doing a strip without words.

And now there's this blue ribbon that appears out of nowhere and is supposed to hold some meaning.

 :tldr: don't blame me, I voted for Automata.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on May 11, 2010, 08:27:25 AM
Looks like it's a flag worn on the belt.  Taking someone's flag means you killed them, in this little game.  I guess.

The arc sort of makes sense, going back and reading the whole thing at once, but it's pointlessly obtuse and not really for any purpose and the words make no damn sense.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 11, 2010, 08:44:33 AM
I think the arc was supposed to be about the guy training the kids to go to battle with the owl beast or something.  The one kid was brave and grabbed the guys flag, but also got his own grabbed.  As a result, he died in battle with the owlbeast?

I don't know.  Just read The Loneliest Astronauts (http://www.agreeablecomics.com/loneliestastronauts)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lottel on May 11, 2010, 08:44:57 AM
I have no idea what was up. I know it represented someone dying.  But fuck if I know what's up.

I want them to use WORDS. This is a good time for Tycho to unleash his pent up storytelling and we get strange, vague poetry.

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on May 11, 2010, 09:07:26 AM
I think the arc was supposed to be about the guy training the kids to go to battle with the owl beast or something.  The one kid was brave and grabbed the guys flag, but also got his own grabbed.  As a result, he died in battle with the owlbeast?

I don't think it was specific "let's train to fight an owlbeast" thing so much as just a training game.  The owlbeast segments were the game as filtered through childlike imagination.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Classic on May 11, 2010, 10:10:10 AM
I'm glad someone else shared in serious derp-itude with me on that.

Unlike the first Lookouts one though, I don't care enough to try going through the pages to see if there are clues to the nature of the mysteries.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on May 11, 2010, 10:43:52 AM
I think the arc was supposed to be about the guy training the kids to go to battle with the owl beast or something.  The one kid was brave and grabbed the guys flag, but also got his own grabbed.  As a result, he died in battle with the owlbeast?

I don't think it was specific "let's train to fight an owlbeast" thing so much as just a training game.  The owlbeast segments were the game as filtered through childlike imagination.

I thought this at first too, but the snow on the ground during the "real" battle tells me that it's a future battle that mirrors the training.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on May 11, 2010, 02:43:31 PM
Man, for a comic that everyone on the internet seems to hate with a burning passion, there sure are a lot of people talking about and discussing what it all means.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Detonator on May 11, 2010, 03:16:15 PM
I didn't know anyone hated Penny Arcade around here.  Even 4chan seems to respect it over every other gamer comic.  It's also the most popular comic on the poll I made, so maybe you're confusing it with something else?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on May 11, 2010, 03:17:29 PM
I think he was referring to Lookouts specifically, not Penny Arcade in general.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 11, 2010, 03:26:20 PM
Oh, that's right, people don't discuss things they dislike ever.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on May 11, 2010, 04:08:16 PM
Man, for a comic that everyone on the internet seems to hate with a burning passion, there sure are a lot of people talking about and discussing what it all means.

If you'll note, I never once used the word 'hate' in my diatribe. I simply wanted to point out that as storytelling in a comics medium goes, this one failed. I get the feeling that Tycho and Gabe are still finding their feet with this or it was a bit rushed or some other third thing.

I agree with Lottel on this, though. The comic could have been a nice prose piece and I think that could have served the comic better than poetry. Just something to flesh out the story. This isn't the Cardboard Tube Samurai, where they can go a few pages without any words or narration whatsoever. The CTS has mythology built into it. They need to build the Lookouts mythology before they can play with it.

All that said, the blue ribbon still baffles me.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 11, 2010, 04:14:51 PM
We used to play a game in elementary school. All players had a team-colored "flag" (more like a square piece of fabric) sticking out of the back of their pants, and the goal was to eliminate the other team by collecting all their flags. This is basically what's going on here, except it's not a 12v12 schoolyard exercise, it's one adult versus four kids trying to learn stealth and basic tactics. The children took out the "beast", but not without losing one of their own.

(Some idiots thought they were being clever by tying their flag to their underwear so they could not be removed, and therefore earned monster wedgies for their trouble. :whoops:)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 11, 2010, 04:20:21 PM
Well, I get that they might be going for it's a sign of defeat in a game.  The problem is the ribbon literally does not appear until those last few panels.  It has no symbolic weight or meaning in the story.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 11, 2010, 04:47:26 PM
The point of the story is that the kids are learning that they will go into the forest where there are monsters, and as clever as they might be, at least some of them will die there. Fortunately, that day was just a game. The lost ribbon is the play equivalent of a fatal wound; a torn jugular doesn't need special symbolic weight or meaning, it's just a torn jugular. It's a tool to the story, not the focus of it. It didn't have to be there any longer than it was.

I mean, if it had ended with the kids stabbing a beast all Shadow of the Colossus-style, and then the next panel was one of them with his chest badly messed up from a claw rake, no one would complain that the wound was devoid of symbolic meaning and that it wasn't built-up enough. Yet the lost ribbon plays the exact same role, only transposed in the context of a game where nobody actually gets hurt.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on May 11, 2010, 04:53:42 PM
That would be fine if that was what the issue was.  The issue was that the blue ribbons never once appear, not even are drawn on their belts, in any scene except for the last.  From a storytelling perspective, it makes no sense and has no meaning because none was given to it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on May 11, 2010, 05:55:26 PM
Basically you're expected to have played the exact same games as a kid as the Penny Arcade guys did or you won't get the context.

I'd say that's a flaw but it's kind of how the usual comic works, too.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on May 11, 2010, 08:08:02 PM
Still kind of amazed that the basic mechanic of flag football (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_football) isn't immediately obvious from context. The kid has a blue ribbon in triumph—but the man reveals that he has a ribbon, too, which causes the kid to notice, alas, that a ribbon's been torn off his belt. The entire rules of interaction are not difficult to extrapolate from these three images.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Lottel on May 11, 2010, 08:25:23 PM
I can see that if you say it like that, but the way it is illustrated and with panels as they are, you really have to try to deconstruct it in order to make any sense of it.
If maybe they weren't so stingy with panels or with words...

Still. I like Penny Arcade and I like the idea of Lookouts. I just want them to be more "Hey, let's read a fun little story about DnD boyscouts" not "And the farmer did trade plums for the drums of winter sing." while swords are clashing in the imaginations of the boys.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: teg on May 12, 2010, 09:42:55 AM
Is it weird that I still think of Beartato as Nedroid's main character even though it's pretty much "The Reginald Comic" by now?

Also, I found the best comic to read ironically.

http://www.peanizles.com/

Quote
Peanizles is a slamming, fun-filled, family-friendly, almost daily comic strip about a group of sarcastic, pop-culture obsessed kids from the neighborhood.

Chuck B
Chuck B struggles with the problem of having the most street cred of any ten year old kid on his block. He’s Lebron James, Jay-Z, and Dave Chappell all rolled together into one bad@$$ package. At least he is in his mind.

Mingus
Mingus is Chuck’s best friend and definite partner in crime and jazz fanatic. His obsession with the great jazz musicians John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, and Dave Brubeck has even led him to wearing a fake soul patch to embrace his beatnik heroes.

Grace
Grace has an on again, off again, not-so-secret crush on Chuck.

Succotash
Succotash is by far the best athlete in, and probably the most popular kid in school.
:perfect:

This comic actually makes me feel kind of bad for being so critical of it. It's a disaster, but in the same way that a disfigured child is. But then I remember that my early webcomics were just as bad.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on May 12, 2010, 10:09:36 AM
I understand what the name is trying to do, but it accomplishes something else entirely. Did that man even say it out loud?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on May 15, 2010, 08:03:58 AM
Wonderella nails it again (http://nonadventures.com/2010/05/15/schools-out-for-bummer/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: JDigital on May 26, 2010, 10:46:21 PM
I got the Lookouts thing. Maybe you're just not used to having to think a little when reading Penny Arcade.

I was only bothered because he said "tumbling" too much. It's still ripping off Jack and Jill even if you say "tumbling" twice.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on June 01, 2010, 10:49:08 AM
I hear 8-Bit Theatre ended today. Something tells me it's ended in a way that made the last nine years into the setup for a punchline.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 01, 2010, 11:27:52 AM
[spoiler]Not a punchline. More like the end of a sitcom episode. Not even a sitcom finale, just, almost basically kind of a status quo/reset button, with everyone doing more or less what they were doing before it all started.

AKA nothing of even remote interest is going on, move along.[/spoiler] ::(:

EDIT: [spoiler]I just had a thought that perfectly describes my reaction. Imagine a half-deflated rubber balloon on the ground. Someone steps on it. The half-hearted "prffft" sound that is produced is the end of 8BT.

I don't even know why I'm using spoiler tags. I guess I don't want to ruin anyone's disappointment?[/spoiler]

Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on June 01, 2010, 11:45:15 AM
Especially since that sort of thing is the entire style of 8BT. I'm just glad I realized it 200 strips in.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 01, 2010, 05:31:43 PM
Yeah I don't care so much about how it ended.

All I care about is it ended.

Guess what can finally come off my RSS feeder!  YES!  Now to get Pete Abrams to stop making new parallel universe plotlines and kill all the immortal villains already.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Royal☭ on June 04, 2010, 05:10:39 AM
While browsing and reading various blogs, came across a link to Ballad (http://www.moderntales.com/comics/ballad.php?view=archive&chapter=12228&mpe=0) and was reminded just how much I loved that story.  Thought some guys around here might also like to be reminded of Ballad.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ziiro on June 06, 2010, 05:17:31 PM
Holy shit. New PBF. (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF248-Transmission.jpg) He also removed the "Gee Golly Jeepers" one.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 06, 2010, 05:41:57 PM
I don't...OH I GET IT

Also, sucks that he got rid of Gee Golly Jeepers. Sure, by itself, not the best comic to go out on, but I'm guessing it about summed up his feelings about doing the comic.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on June 06, 2010, 06:31:04 PM
Holy shit. New PBF. (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF248-Transmission.jpg) He also removed the "Gee Golly Jeepers" one.

I remember that joke from the Marvel Adventures story Ego the Loving Planet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 06, 2010, 07:08:41 PM
I love Marvel Adventures. Between the Ego story, the one where they get turned into MODOKs, and the one where they play baseball against Galactus, MAA easily has some of the best Avengers stories ever.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on June 06, 2010, 08:27:00 PM
Having seen some of his subsequent work, I think the dark secret here is that PBF may be the best thing he ever does.

Granted it'll take a couple dozen years to prove or disprove that and for his own sake, I hope he does find other things to play around with that are as rewarding to hisaudience as they are to him, but most of his other stuff has seemed like arthouse playtime. PBF is the one thing he's done that truly clicks on all levels.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on June 12, 2010, 12:59:07 PM
Just got linked to Dawn of Time (http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=1) through Dinosaur Comics and this thing is just flat-out tyrannical

Start from the beginning and make your way through.

I-it's just a delight!
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on June 18, 2010, 01:32:48 PM
I have discovered and archive-binged on Name Removed (http://nameremoved.com/), which is a comic for the sort of person who gives a crap about what Scott McCloud has to say. Sometimes it goes off on an extremely metafictional storyline, but for the most part, the three pages in a week all start with the same user-supplied first panel, riffing on the same basic framework. I like it.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on June 23, 2010, 04:46:38 AM
An unusual (http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-5/chapter-5-page-24/) convergence today. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/23/)
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 23, 2010, 05:14:08 AM
Man I hope they do The 4th Panel on that one, I need to know the conversation that got them there.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Büge on June 23, 2010, 04:36:12 PM
Ryan Sohmer ought to be proud that he's created a webcomic that takes a mediocre joke and beats it to death in the very first comic. It took Scott Ramsoomair almost 300 tries.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 24, 2010, 09:25:03 AM
Achewood is keeping me on the edge of my seat these days. That story went from "man I hope T gets to be back in time to welcome Philippe" to "man I hope T gets to keep his brains on the inside of his head".

For some reason, when I try to imagine how Téodor could get out of this, I keep thinking he could MacGyver a lockpick from the contents of Nathan's wallet.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Shinra on June 24, 2010, 10:00:46 AM
I'm honestly hoping this arc will be the end of Nice Pete. He is far and away my least favorite character.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 24, 2010, 11:34:46 AM
I don't dislike him so much as feel it's time for him to just go away.

Hopefully his asscheeks and brain get hella stabbed again.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 24, 2010, 11:45:30 AM
The only thing that really bugs me about Nice Pete is that it's completely inexplicable how anyone tolerates him being around at all. I mean, Pat's a dick and a murderer (kinda), but he's always been one of the guys; on the other hand, Pete's a rusty, phallic sword of Damocles.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: TA on June 24, 2010, 11:55:27 AM
How, exactly, do you tell Nice Pete you don't want him hanging around anymore?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 24, 2010, 12:12:15 PM
Move into a woman-heavy environment.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on June 24, 2010, 01:42:38 PM
Does an environment like that even exist in Achewood?
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Doom on June 24, 2010, 03:16:04 PM
Although Nice Pete as a person and prospective hang-out guy is utterly terrifying, he's a pretty consistently funny plot device and arc set-up guy.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 25, 2010, 07:49:23 AM
How, exactly, do you tell Nice Pete you don't want him hanging around anymore?

Indirectly, by means of law enforcement. He did break out from jail.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on June 25, 2010, 09:47:35 AM
I like when Nice Pete gets sidetracked on his little tirades or thoughts on a matter and everyone always just stops talking and listens to him until he is finished. There's something I like about how nobody in Achewood has any idea how to begin to handle The Pete Situation.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 25, 2010, 01:22:06 PM
A new Fanboys (http://fanboys-online.com/).  My shock is palpable.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 30, 2010, 02:14:26 PM
Erfworld's inhabitants been talking about Jillian's magic feat for roughly twice the age of the solar system now. We get it, she's not normal.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 30, 2010, 02:28:31 PM
I dunno, the magic feat seemed to be a linked caster deal to me (especially given how nobody was allowed to talk to the turnamancer beforehand), with some bloke from Charlescomm and/or Transylvito maybe, not something that specifically comes from Jillian herself. The only thing that strikes me as not normal about her is how everybody in the world wants to crawl up her vagina.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Zaratustra on June 30, 2010, 03:30:59 PM
yes it's quite obvious that the spell was made possible by the Turnamancer linking up with Charlie at a distance, which is why all other Charlescomm communications were disabled for a long period.

...

please tell me it's obvious.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Bongo Bill on June 30, 2010, 03:35:22 PM
Well, now it is.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on June 30, 2010, 03:48:12 PM
I've never thought twice about it, really, so it must be.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Brentai on June 30, 2010, 08:22:27 PM
Not in such terms, but yes, Charlie Did It.

Which is pretty much Erfworld's answer to... Charlie Did It.
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: François on July 01, 2010, 07:33:29 AM
...even moreso now.   :OoO:
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mongrel on July 02, 2010, 05:24:55 PM
The three webcomics I read regularly are the Meek, Sailor Twain, and Kate Beaton (there are others, but they're just once in a while). Today Sailor Twain linked to Kate Beaton and Kate linked to The Meek.

It'd have been a perfect trifecta, only The Meek already linked to Sailor Twain some time ago (which is how I started following Sailor Twain in the first place).
Title: Re: Webcomicry
Post by: Mothra on July 03, 2010, 10:13:57 AM
The guy from Gunshow, K. C. Green, has a sketch blog (http://midnitesurprise.tumblr.com/) now!
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Lottel on July 03, 2010, 10:31:10 AM
Yeah. I think it's a lot of the sketches he does in the Ghost House or whatever his "for pay" website is.
I dig the guy, not too fond of the idea though. I mean, I know money for entertainment and all that but some how subscriptions to websites always rub me the wrong way.
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Royal☭ on July 03, 2010, 10:34:05 AM
The fuck are you talking about?
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Lottel on July 03, 2010, 10:53:56 AM
KC has a pay site with a subscription called the Ghost House or something like that. He talks about it on twitter every few days.
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Dooly on July 03, 2010, 08:29:32 PM
Well, I'd considered recommending Outsider (http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/) in this thread, but I figured I was overlooking some of the more hokey parts of it in favor of the overall storyline.  Also, it's supposedly been going since 2001 and it's only up to 76 pages.
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: teg on July 04, 2010, 09:42:33 AM
Yesterday I checked Bolt City on a whim. Copper is still on the exact same comic it was at when Kibuishi promised he'd update once a month if a fan voted for Obama.

:whoops:
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Royal☭ on July 04, 2010, 09:43:57 AM
I'll cut him some slack on not updating his comic after his sister was murdered (http://twitter.com/boltcity/status/14877623634), but you feel free to give him guff about it.
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: teg on July 04, 2010, 11:29:24 AM
I haven't looked at Bolt City in like a year and I've never read his twitter, so I think I'm excused.
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Shinra on July 04, 2010, 10:31:18 PM
the most recent Achewood leads me to believe that this is going to end with Nice Pete, still in his high school persona, tricking Teodor into sucking gay dick. "Ha ha ha, Darren! Did you really think I was going to kill you in my murder van?"
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Brentai on July 04, 2010, 10:58:53 PM
It wouldn't be at all surprising if Nice Pete just wanted to turn everyone gay.
Title: Re: ALL MSPAINTADVENTURES ALL THE TIME
Post by: Niku on July 05, 2010, 07:21:41 AM
It is complete (http://gunshowcomic.com/ac/).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 13, 2010, 08:51:50 AM
Well now, this is, ah... hm. (http://binsybaby.livejournal.com/688396.html)

:happy:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 13, 2010, 10:03:41 AM
I'm pretty okay with all that, whatever it was.

Horse powers seem like a double-edged sword.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on July 13, 2010, 10:18:39 AM
Yes, it is indeed a gift as well as a curse. All the awesomeness of a magical horse, all the deliciousness of a can of Alpo.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on July 16, 2010, 05:11:33 AM
Sad that Gone With the Blastwave is a pile of crap that is never updated by its creator who hates webcomics?

Then try out Romantically Apocalyptic (http://www.romanticallyapocalyptic.com/home)


WARNING: May actually suck, but the art is great
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 16, 2010, 05:42:13 AM
... wow.

It's like GWTB died and went to Russia.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Envy on July 16, 2010, 12:17:00 PM
This comic is absolutely fantastic Constantine.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 16, 2010, 08:07:31 PM
I am drastically less of a fan of Amazing Super Powers since my first ever comment on a comic was deleted for being mean to a stupid person.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on July 17, 2010, 03:50:06 AM
Man I hope they do The 4th Panel on that one, I need to know the conversation that got them there.

!

It's even better than I imagined. I still have a tear in the corner of my eye.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on July 19, 2010, 09:24:11 AM
O.O (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/19/axe-cop-dr-mcninja-teamup/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on July 26, 2010, 10:26:52 AM
I don't get Achewood. The drawings are ugly and the punchlines are... are there punchlines? Anyway, what's the appeal?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 26, 2010, 11:15:13 AM
I tried making that same confession a long time ago. It was explained that I had to invest a lot of time reading an inaccessible backlog, after which point I'd get it.

When I did try to read Achewood, there was a part of me that felt like that fellow at the party who Didn't Get The Joke. Then there's the other part that kept saying "but, these bears have no clothes on!".
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on July 26, 2010, 11:23:52 AM
Imagine what it might be like if you had empathy for bears with tiny wangs. Or maybe like, the feeling of watching one of those bears get his everywhere but his testicles with footballs. It's about that special brand of schadenfreude and catharsis you get from watching someone who just cockblocked get his own dicky-parry-riposte. Or maybe it's just surreal in a way that's really affecting to... whatever it is achewood's readers are. I guess maybe they're otter fetishists?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 26, 2010, 11:50:51 AM
Imagine what it might be like if you had empathy for bears with tiny wangs. Or maybe like, the feeling of watching one of those bears get his everywhere but his testicles with footballs. It's about that special brand of schadenfreude and catharsis you get from watching someone who just cockblocked get his own dicky-parry-riposte. Or maybe it's just surreal in a way that's really affecting to... whatever it is achewood's readers are. I guess maybe they're otter fetishists?

This post makes about as much sense as the comic does.

Which is appropriate, I suppose.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on July 26, 2010, 11:59:51 AM
I felt the same way for a long time, even after several attempts at figuring out why everybody else seemed to love it. Then I was linked to one particular strip*, laughed my head off, went through the archives, and fell in love. You definitely need that click moment, but once you're in it's pretty much self-sustaining. Overall it's about the flow of dialogue, the character's voices and interactions, and a unique brand of pathos that gives it a bizarre and nigh-unexplainable sense of reality.

I wish I could give it some concrete props instead of this ethereal crap, but in the end you get it or you don't, and if you don't then you shouldn't worry about it, it's not on account of a flaw on your part. It's a weird comic.

*: For the record, it was this one (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05032004), though you probably shouldn't expect it to do it for you. Frame of mind, etc. etc.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 26, 2010, 12:10:21 PM
That was actually one of the strips I found funny.

I guess I don't hate it, and I like a small number of the strips, but it just doesn't appeal to me. Which is funny, because I usually enjoy stuff with a very personal pathos.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on July 26, 2010, 12:31:07 PM
Alright, idea. Here's kind of a superfluous and extreme thing, and I doubt anyone cares that much, but eh, just in case.

This is my assetbar profile page. (http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/profile_public?b=M^9f2e501db71da3a7c0d8b5f838ab0bdb1) It has a random selection of strips I've rated 5 out of 5. Anyone who for some reason feels like it can pick any of them, and I'll try explain why I like them. It probably won't make you like them, but maybe it'll offer some insight into the tragically deranged mind of an Achewood fan.


Scratch that, you'd need to register to see that page.  :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on July 26, 2010, 05:32:37 PM
Achewood is basically a comic strip you have to dig through because sometimes the entire cast is dressing up like Cheers or Ray is flying Airwolf, and sometimes you just get months and months of pointless weird Cartilage Head shit.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on July 26, 2010, 05:41:13 PM
Achewood is very character-driven. If you don't know the characters, it stands to reason you won't like most of it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on July 26, 2010, 05:43:50 PM
It's pointless to read Achewood expecting a punchline.  Most of the humor comes from the bizarre dialogue and surreal situations.  Most of the time it's this deadpan delivery where you're not ever sure there is a joke.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on July 26, 2010, 06:54:24 PM
I finally read every Penny Arcade.


...Do I get a prize?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 26, 2010, 07:00:07 PM
I'd say "spared of the task of having to read every Penny Arcade", but they give that one out for free.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on July 26, 2010, 07:06:04 PM
Probably your prize is a new penny-arcade.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on July 29, 2010, 08:01:41 PM
I love Kate Beaton (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=275)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 02, 2010, 07:09:39 AM
Hey, I didn't know Kate Beaton had a secret ancillary feed. (http://twitpic.com/photos/beatonna)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on August 02, 2010, 07:58:35 AM
So does John Alison! (http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on August 02, 2010, 08:01:09 AM
Also, The Adam! (http://www.theadamcomic.com/) is pretty good.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 02, 2010, 11:50:18 AM
So I guess KC has been fooling about with flash.  TANE.US (http://tane.us)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 03, 2010, 07:34:30 PM
Well whaddya know, he updated. (http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on August 04, 2010, 12:04:33 PM
And so did he! (http://www.bohemiandrive.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 23, 2010, 08:28:56 AM
I will never stop loving Penny Arcade. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/23/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Frocto on August 23, 2010, 08:34:13 AM
oh yeah this thread

http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/ (http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 23, 2010, 09:11:44 AM
I would enjoy that comic more if it didn't suffer from Fred Gallagher Disease.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 23, 2010, 09:14:49 AM
I think the first name you came up for it was funnier, but the karma+ stands, regardless.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 23, 2010, 09:20:25 AM
Well, Type 3 Megatokyo Disease is the technical term, but I went with the colloquial version to reduce confusion.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on August 23, 2010, 10:30:14 AM
That Super Milf thing pretty much finished destroying any pretense that this comic isn't about ridiculous over-the-top cheesecake, but I'm not going to pretend I'm too highbrow to be okay with that.

I've been following this guy's comics for a long time now, not because I find him particularly good, but because when he gets other people to draw his stuff, it happens to be occasionally rather (http://www.marilith.com/archive.php?date=20060427) spectacular (http://www.marilith.com/archive.php?date=20071120).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on August 24, 2010, 06:21:08 AM
I'm confused; which of Megatokyo's many, many flaws are we referring to?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Smiler on August 24, 2010, 06:38:04 AM
All of them.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 24, 2010, 09:12:21 AM
Type 3 Megatokyo Disease is caused by an erratic update schedule. Sketch pages can alleviate the problem, but there is only one cure. If it is left untreated, however, it can develop into Chronic Ramsoomair Syndrome, or CRS. That's a death sentence.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Frocto on September 01, 2010, 09:36:02 PM
http://www.romanticallyapocalyptic.com/home (http://www.romanticallyapocalyptic.com/home)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 02, 2010, 05:41:40 AM
No updates since it was posted previously.  ;____;

Maybe it really IS trying to be a Gone With The Blastwave clone.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on September 02, 2010, 11:02:26 AM
I discovered a new webcomic, The Loney Infermo (http://loneyinfermo.com/). Kind of similar to pictures for sad children, though relentless depression doesn't appear to be its main focus.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on September 12, 2010, 08:02:17 PM
I saw an ad for The Dawn Chapel on Furaffinity. Yay Rootdown!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 17, 2010, 12:58:03 AM
Oh, hey, Girly's over.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 19, 2010, 04:31:35 PM
Might just be the best one-off webcomic you read all week (http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p=24738499&postcount=4033)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Friday on September 20, 2010, 03:08:39 AM
Quote
Oh, hey, Girly's over.

I always knew full splash page lesbian sex could save the world from an unspeakable evil.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on September 20, 2010, 06:05:13 AM
if elmo and a freaking reindeer etc etc
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 28, 2010, 06:25:09 AM
Hipster Hitler (http://hipsterhitler.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 01, 2010, 03:57:24 PM
BUNNIES BUNNIES GO GO GOOOO (http://amultiverse.com/)

and vote

for bunnies

BUNNIES
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on October 10, 2010, 08:58:23 AM
Persona, one of the artists for the Scott Pilgrim game and an associate of the Mecha Fetus crew, started a weekly webcomic (http://visucomics.mechafetus.com/) because of a dare, I think.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on October 12, 2010, 03:35:01 PM
Found a new webcomic to read. (http://channelate.com/)

(http://channelate.com/comics/2010-10-06-porkin.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on October 16, 2010, 10:54:46 PM
Saw Jeph Jacques give a lecture today. It was pretty informative.
Then I got this:

 (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs763.snc4/66297_443548811630_730326630_5834963_6318760_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on October 17, 2010, 07:06:58 AM
Kate Beaton's fat pony  is going to be in an episode  (http://frederatorblogs.com/adventure_time/2010/10/14the-eyes-characters/)

:O (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=664005211097#w400-h224)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 17, 2010, 07:15:11 AM
Speaking of the fat pony, he's in Kate's latest strip and it's a gas (http://beatonna.livejournal.com/140686.html).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on October 17, 2010, 07:34:47 AM
Fuck, that post made me remember that I forgot to pick up a copy of Strange Tales from the store.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 24, 2010, 03:41:04 PM
Over at Scenes From A Multiverse, the Bunnies Planet is in a close race for its last week before being entered into the SFAM hall of fame or whatever. So go, and vote for bunnies! (http://amultiverse.com/) Unless you're some sort of bunnieless communist or something.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 25, 2010, 08:51:49 PM
Kate Beaton just knocked this one outta the park. (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=285)

The DRACULA PARK.


Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Aintaer on October 28, 2010, 08:39:38 AM
Unless you're some sort of bunnieless communist or something.
:;_;:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: LaserBeing on October 28, 2010, 10:31:17 PM
(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/twotankomen.gif)

Two-Tank Omen commands you to read American Barbarian at once. (http://www.ambarb.com)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on October 29, 2010, 04:11:59 AM
Hey, that's by Tom Scioli, who also did the art for Godland and the Freedom Force comic.  Radical.  His Kirbyesque art is amazing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on October 29, 2010, 08:30:20 AM
Are his feet tanks?  I'm not sure if that would be awesome or not.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on October 29, 2010, 08:45:40 AM
Are his feet tanks?  I'm not sure if that would be awesome or not.

hint: it'd be awesome
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on October 30, 2010, 10:28:33 AM
Thank you for this.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on October 30, 2010, 11:09:02 AM
Tank you for this.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on October 31, 2010, 04:22:01 PM
His Face All Red (http://emcarroll.com/comics/faceallred/01.html)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on November 02, 2010, 04:16:00 AM
New Perry Bible Fellowship, as well as some animations: (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF249-Memorabilia.jpg)

Beach Rumble (http://vimeo.com/14041430)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on November 08, 2010, 05:11:09 AM
The Death of José Arcadio (http://emcarroll.com/comics/josearcadio.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 10, 2010, 02:13:53 PM
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/ovc23233.jpg)

(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/ovc23238.jpg)

(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/ovc23215.jpg)

Our Valued Customers (http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on November 10, 2010, 06:02:47 PM
Oddly, I do consider preferring star trek to star wars to be a peripheral indicator of maturity.
i.e., Is the subject willing to tolerate science nonsense for...
Super Space Magicians
or...
Social Commentary That Once Pushed the Envelope

and which of those two objectives do they appreciate more?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 10, 2010, 06:04:50 PM
In the 200+ posts there I was both somewhat disappointed and surprised to see that (only) three of them could easily be something I would say, either out of or in context.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 10, 2010, 06:32:32 PM
Oddly, I do consider preferring star trek to star wars to be a peripheral indicator of maturity.
i.e., Is the subject willing to tolerate science nonsense for...
Super Space Magicians
or...
Social Commentary That Once Pushed the Envelope

and which of those two objectives do they appreciate more?

The best "good" Star Trek fans are probably MUCH more tolerable the best "good" Star Wars fans, but the worst dregs from either side are near-indistinguishable for sheer awfulness.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on November 10, 2010, 07:02:11 PM
I thought that was true about all fandoms.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 10, 2010, 07:19:32 PM
Oddly, I do consider preferring star trek to star wars to be a peripheral indicator of maturity.
i.e., Is the subject willing to tolerate science nonsense for...
Super Space Magicians
or...
Social Commentary That Once Pushed the Envelope

and which of those two objectives do they appreciate more?

Can't say I enjoy the directions that either franchise drifted.

Star Trek is like one of those girls with a social conscience, who became a vegetarian for the wrong reasons. She thought it would make her a better person, so now she throws statistics at you in an attempt to show you that she's a smart and good person for going "cruelty-free," but it just makes her look smug and ill-informed.

Star Wars is one of those guys who was really creative in high school, writing stories and winning contests and such. Then a decade after graduation, you find out that he's still living in the same place, too afraid to move on from his early success and occasionally churning out some horrid fanfiction.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 10, 2010, 07:22:17 PM
neeeerds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRuuF-5ZST8#ws)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on November 10, 2010, 07:44:59 PM
I'm a little offended by how you characterized Star Trek, but...
That's all I need to say, isn't it?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on November 10, 2010, 08:02:06 PM
I actually drifted from Star Trek to Star Wars as I got older, actually.

I basically realized they were both complete bullshit and that the choice was between fun bullshit and pretentious bullshit.  If you go with pretentious over fun, well, grow up.

Caveats: OS Star Trek was actually important for its time, but this is not the 1960s.  Episodes 2 and 3 of Star Wars still rubbish, 1 still mostly okay, franchise at large continues to produce the best and worst of sci-fi.  Star Trek reboot is more like Star Wars than Star Trek and I am okay with this.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on November 10, 2010, 09:00:15 PM
I basically realized they were both complete bullshit
...
OS Star Trek was actually important for its time
This was actually the thing that got me at all interested in Star Trek.
For whatever reason, I decided it was important for me to "get" Star Trek and appreciate it.


I guess I'm conflating "like" and "appreciate" to my own detriment again, and the hours I've spent watching Star Wars (KotOR not counted, obvs.)  dwarfs the time I've spent watching Star Trek.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on November 10, 2010, 09:14:02 PM
I don't think you can "get" Star Trek without being surrounded on all sides by the Civil Rights Movement.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 11, 2010, 06:57:00 AM
Oddly, I do consider preferring star trek to star wars to be a peripheral indicator of maturity.
i.e., Is the subject willing to tolerate science nonsense for...
Super Space Magicians
or...
Social Commentary That Once Pushed the Envelope

and which of those two objectives do they appreciate more?

Can't say I enjoy the directions that either franchise drifted.

Star Trek is like one of those girls with a social conscience, who became a vegetarian for the wrong reasons. She thought it would make her a better person, so now she throws statistics at you in an attempt to show you that she's a smart and good person for going "cruelty-free," but it just makes her look smug and ill-informed.

Star Wars is one of those guys who was really creative in high school, writing stories and winning contests and such. Then a decade after graduation, you find out that he's still living in the same place, too afraid to move on from his early success and occasionally churning out some horrid fanfiction.

This is basically the way I look at it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on November 11, 2010, 03:04:17 PM
I had even stopped paying attention to the RSS feed, but I kept it around anyway. That said, I literally did a double take when I noticed the year on the timestamp out of the corner of my eye. Chopping Block (http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/) came back November 1st.

Whoa, déjà vu!

...

Chopping Block is back! (http://www.choppingblock.org/)  :victory:

Let's see how long it lasts this time.

Welp, that one was about four months.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on November 11, 2010, 05:34:57 PM
I don't think you can "get" Star Trek without being surrounded on all sides by the Civil Rights Movement.

Fair, but I still think I got something worthwhile out of the attempt.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on November 12, 2010, 01:21:02 PM
I'm confused about what's happening on Dr. McNinja. Did he just kill a bunch of physicians in order to save the world (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p38), or did he merely just make them sick?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on November 12, 2010, 01:34:27 PM
I expect it's a drug that will temporarily make them ghosts to fight the nasaghasts.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 17, 2010, 06:29:06 PM
Dogs don't understand moving (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 18, 2010, 10:38:14 AM
That was pretty incredible.  Holy crap.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 19, 2010, 08:46:32 AM
Has anyone mentioned She Died in Terrebonne (http://www.agreeablecomics.com/kimimura/?p=9) yet? It's a year-long murder mystery written by Kevin Church, with art by T.J. Kirsch. I'm only a few pages in, but so far it's pretty fantastic.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on November 22, 2010, 11:29:53 AM
Gone With The Blastwave (http://vimeo.com/17054326)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 22, 2010, 12:16:05 PM
Wow, that was amazing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 22, 2010, 01:13:59 PM
That was very well done.

I just wish it was, well... actually funny.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on November 22, 2010, 01:18:15 PM
It looked great and sounded good, but it could have easily been like 5-7 minutes shorter.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 22, 2010, 01:18:49 PM
I liked everything up until they started talking.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on November 24, 2010, 07:56:28 AM
Bill Amend does today's xkcd (http://xkcd.com/824/)

I don't notice a difference.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 24, 2010, 10:04:28 AM
In what, xkcd or Foxtrot?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on November 24, 2010, 10:04:47 AM
Yes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on November 25, 2010, 04:49:59 PM
I'm posting comicy things (http://sharkey.gamespite.net/) in between all that nothing I've been doing for the last month or so.

I have this thing where I kind of want to think that it's not all crap and stupid so I seek validation from the internet.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 25, 2010, 05:04:55 PM
The punchline on the Thanksgiving one got a pretty good laugh outta me.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on November 25, 2010, 07:36:09 PM
I didn't know Terry Bogard has a vore fetish.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on November 25, 2010, 07:48:06 PM
Hum. If you're reading it that way maybe that explains all reddit's downvotes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on November 27, 2010, 08:34:17 PM


Montezuma: Still an Idiot (http://sharkey.gamespite.net/your-pathetic-civilization/).

Dropped a link on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ecqfn/your_pathetic_civilization/). Hopefully it pops this time.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on November 27, 2010, 08:57:22 PM
Atheism is okay, but try /r/gaming.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 27, 2010, 09:44:25 PM
Yep, that's Civ.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 28, 2010, 08:53:12 PM
Oh hey Nintendo Super Squad (http://www.drunkduck.com/Nintendo_Super_Squad/index.php?p=768585) is back
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Eponymous Bosch on November 28, 2010, 09:07:19 PM
Oh hey Nintendo Super Squad (http://www.drunkduck.com/Nintendo_Super_Squad/index.php?p=768585) is back

Oh wow, out of nowhere.  Like finding a gold nugget in between your couch cushions or something.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on December 05, 2010, 12:50:53 PM
One for R^2 (http://www.agreeablecomics.com/theline/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: R^2 on December 06, 2010, 08:51:44 AM
Oh man, Chef Paul is a dick and it looks like Linda's late. Hilarity ensues!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 06, 2010, 09:43:46 AM
Say, on that subject, anybody ever watch the English TV show 'Chef'?

Just curious.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 06, 2010, 10:21:04 AM
I've caught the odd episode here and there.  Seemed fairly mediocre.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 07, 2010, 08:03:13 AM
My favourite webcomic of all time, Get Your War On (http://nymag.com/news/articles/10/12/getyourwaron/) is back.

I don't actually know that I'm happy, because as much as I enjoy Dave Ree's stream of bitterness (a bitterness so pure you could bottle it and sell it as a hard drug) it means he has cause to write again.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 07, 2010, 08:26:28 AM
I just realized I haven't read Looking for Group for about a month.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on December 10, 2010, 01:54:00 PM
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/tychocrying.png)

















































(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/tychocryingface.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: BusyZombieLord on December 10, 2010, 08:12:56 PM
I am not sure if it was mentioned yet but I am huge fan of Something Positive. Besides Penny Arcade it is about the only Web Comic I read regularly.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on December 11, 2010, 01:24:18 PM
Man, I hate Schlock Mercenary's Doctor Bunnigus. What a psycho. I have nothing against strong female characters, I can stand Breya and Jevee and Elf even if they've occasionally been textureless feminist mouthpieces. But Bunnigus! Argh! She's that and so much worse. I think I first realized it when she drugged Tagon because she was afraid he'd fire her for fixing the fork-wound in his eye (and by that I mean the happy-drugs, not the sedative). Tagon's not the brightest tack in the six-pack but he's not retarded; he's not gonna fire the company doctor who happens to be his chaplain's wife and also a friend because she made sure he received appropriate medical care. He would have thrown a fit on account of what was technically disobedience, but that's his prerogative as the guy who signs her paychecks, and it certainly didn't give her a moral license to outright dope him. Jesus.

And now? Her marriage to Theo was a fabricated memory, and she feels the need to yell at him so he'll ask for her hand properly. That's bad enough, but moments prior they both were moping about it like there was nothing they could do. Yeah, so you figured it out half a second before he did, that totally entitles you to get all up in the poor wet noodle's face.

I almost want to go back and find more examples of her violent outbursts and chronic rageaholism but ironically that'd just piss me off and I for one don't revel in that emotion.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: LaserBeing on December 11, 2010, 06:20:11 PM
ITT complaints about poorly-written, unlikeable female characters in webcomics
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on December 12, 2010, 09:24:53 PM
All the females in Schlock Mercenary are a large degree of off-kilter.  Probably because it's a webcomic that prides itself on being about nerdy sci-fi and amorally machismo military violence.  Or something.  I try not to worry about it until it becomes a huge elephant that won't go away (Why can't they leave the spy girl from the mall alone?  How did Elf go from "barely distinguishable from a teenaged boy" to "embodiment of Taylor's midlife crisis given tits"?).

Anyway, that's not what I'm here to talk about.  In fact, it's almost exactly the opposite of what I'm here to talk about.  I'm here to talk about the Girl Genius line of incense (http://www.zomgsmells.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=74).  How and why do you have a room that is designed to smell like Jagers?  This is probably the most confusing piece of merch I've ever seen come out of the medium.  That said though, I am somewhat intrigued by the Bangladesh DuPree* line of scents, because... well...

Because I want to smell her.










* If you don't know who that is, and you try to google her name, the first thing you see will be a big ol' picture of her being spread wide open and rutted by a clank.  Fair warning.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 12, 2010, 10:29:03 PM
Well.  Can't say I wasn't warned.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Dooly on December 13, 2010, 02:08:58 AM
God damn it even appears with SafeSearch set to strict.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 13, 2010, 06:18:51 AM
Ta daa! (http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Bangladesh_DuPree) A worksafe link.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Healy on December 13, 2010, 08:02:17 AM
Hey guys! Check out this guest comic I wrote. (http://www.tallcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=89) A dude named The Brood drew it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on December 13, 2010, 07:33:02 PM
Well.  Can't say I wasn't warned.

God damn it even appears with SafeSearch set to strict.

(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/youcantmakeitstopkeephappening.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on December 13, 2010, 08:11:15 PM
I WARNED YOU ABOUT GOOGLE BRO!!!!

I TOLD YOU DOG!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on December 15, 2010, 05:03:12 PM
Hey guys! Check out this guest comic I wrote. (http://www.tallcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=89) A dude named The Brood drew it.

Wholehearted approval of this strip (http://www.tallcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=85).

Guest strip went right over my head, though.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 17, 2010, 04:26:26 PM
I think this might be the first time I've actually laughed at a strip by the MacHall guys in years. (http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/182.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on December 17, 2010, 05:34:05 PM
I'm still waiting for the first time I'll ever laugh at a MacHall strip, actually.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 17, 2010, 07:44:11 PM
I'm still waiting for the first time I'll ever laugh at a MacHall strip, actually.

Welcome to how I view Achewood.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on December 18, 2010, 12:01:55 PM
(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/802/autauxm.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on December 18, 2010, 12:06:08 PM
Oh. Well. That was kind of cute.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on December 29, 2010, 06:03:27 AM
So I'm a day late on this one, but SMBC just had the first comic I've seen with an incidental gay date (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2107#comic). One where they talk about sports, no less.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on January 19, 2011, 03:26:08 AM
PVP and Schlock Mercenary are both doing jokes about TSA at the same time. It is as exciting as it sounds.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on January 20, 2011, 08:20:27 PM
For a while I wasn't sure why I was following Gutters (http://www.the-gutters.com/).

Now I know.

(http://zedpower.dreamhosters.com/images/misc/gutters.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on January 21, 2011, 05:33:53 AM
Sometimes I wonder if Ryan Sohmer is actually writing those comics, because they're occasionally sort of funny.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on January 21, 2011, 08:32:31 AM
Well they still treat women like barely-cogent sex objects, so I'm gonna say "yes he wrote them"
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on January 21, 2011, 09:35:53 AM
I'm usually not one to defend the guy but we're talking about a strip that aims to mock the comic book industry here.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on January 21, 2011, 12:51:00 PM
Yeah. I tried reading a few of them and quit when I reached a Chuck Norris joke.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on January 22, 2011, 05:00:16 AM
So Dr. McNinja is going to explode a nasaghast through the power of song.  The Ghostbusters theme, specifically.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 22, 2011, 06:17:05 AM
Well, not the actual song itself. He's not singing the lyrics. Just the tune.

He did it before.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 26, 2011, 09:28:40 AM
By the by, anybody catch the latest Kate Beaton (http://beatonna.livejournal.com/#entry_143643)? I can honestly say this is among her very, very best.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on January 30, 2011, 01:02:44 PM
Axe Cop: The Movie - Part 1 (http://vimeo.com/19119108)

AXE COOOOOP!  AXE COOOOOOOOOP!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 30, 2011, 01:47:38 PM
That's pretty awesome.

Though you know, I sure hope that kid manages to do something more impressive later. Entirely for his sake, rather than ours.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on January 30, 2011, 03:53:21 PM
Yeah I'm always worried that he's going to hit puberty, realize he was pretty much patronized by the entire fucking internet, and rage epically.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Norondor on January 30, 2011, 04:12:26 PM
epicjar.jpg
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on January 30, 2011, 04:18:14 PM
Yeah hey I was waiting for the first asshole to post that.  Enjoy your new hat.  It is the asshole hat.

Or should I say

The asshat.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 30, 2011, 09:06:25 PM
I was thinking more about how depressing it would be to peak at five years old.

But you made a good point too.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on January 31, 2011, 04:26:38 AM
Oh hey it's another unsupportive parent in Order of the Stick. I'm starting to think Mr. Webcomic Artist has issues.

Meanwhile, I finally discovered what's been bothering me about Schlock Mercenary. When a bunch of mercenaries threaten high military in order to save the galaxy, times are good. When those very same mercenaries are threatening mall thieves for bus money, it's a bit... underwhelming.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on January 31, 2011, 04:32:30 AM
The artist for Spinnerette needs to work on his layouts or add little arrows.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 31, 2011, 05:33:46 AM
From Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim: RATFIST (http://ratfist.com/title/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on February 02, 2011, 04:20:10 AM
Wow. I can actually hear thousands of RSS feeds dropping Guilded Age like a hot potato.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on February 10, 2011, 09:13:39 AM
Wow. I can actually hear thousands of RSS feeds dropping Guilded Age like a hot potato.

And then today happened.

Man, that was one of the faster turns from "This is pretty interesting" to "This is phenomenally retarded" I can recall.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on February 10, 2011, 09:20:28 AM
It's almost as if it was written by its namesake.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on February 12, 2011, 02:12:19 PM
So, hey, the way Gun Show is updating reminds me of Mr. Show. Each strip segues into the next one, just like how every skit segued into the proceeding skit.

I just thought that was neat and I wanted to share that with everybody.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on February 14, 2011, 03:41:26 PM
Oh hey, turns out nasaghasts are DICKS.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on February 14, 2011, 11:02:07 PM
So, Girl Genius.

Are they still on Namek?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on February 14, 2011, 11:08:42 PM
Not only are they still on Namek but they have to cure somebody of poison again.

Gil is currently the best character in the comic simply on the basis of his total immunity to this bullshit.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Shinra on February 14, 2011, 11:39:17 PM
Hey, the plot is finally progressing, at least.

Guess it's about time they did another two month long filler arc.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on February 15, 2011, 03:05:32 PM
Not only are they still on Namek but they have to cure somebody of poison again.
Took care of it in a single panel, though.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on February 15, 2011, 04:13:34 PM
I was going to gloat and be a general jackass to Brent about it, but then I remembered he's a mod that this is probably Chekov's Blunderbus.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on February 15, 2011, 11:27:02 PM
Like the ten billion other things that were left behind in the story?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on February 15, 2011, 11:48:24 PM
So where do you want to wager that Dr. McNinja ends up in time? Personally, I'm hoping colonial America, but ancient Rome or the Aztecs might be cool, too.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 17, 2011, 10:55:54 AM
Maybe he'll wind up in Ireland, hundreds of years ago, and teach villagers to use frozen shamrocks to fend off Pirates.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on February 17, 2011, 11:40:21 AM
The whole "Chuck seeing himself get murdered by King Radical" seems to imply Aztec empire. I'm hoping they go all over time, myself.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 21, 2011, 07:05:01 AM
I'm beginning to realize that SFAM's readers have really terrible taste.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Healy on February 22, 2011, 01:49:00 AM
Jorge Luis Borges Comics, Part 1 (http://www.tallcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=92) and Part 2. (http://www.tallcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=93)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on February 23, 2011, 09:13:30 AM
I really dig how Scott Kurtz's art has improved in the last several years, but I still can't abide by Jade's new eyes. I don't know what the problem is. Miranda has very similar ones, but they work on her. It's like everybody else got more fluid and interesting versions of their cartoon selves, but Jade's stuck in an uncanny valley halfway between the old and the new.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on February 23, 2011, 11:42:27 AM
I really dig how Scott Kurtz's art has improved in the last several years, but nothing else about PVP has
Shortened it for you.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 06, 2011, 10:28:56 PM
Are you reading Ratfist?

Because you really should be reading Ratfist. (http://ratfist.com/page-35/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on March 06, 2011, 11:39:32 PM
Quote
TenNapel is politically conservative and frequently writes articles for Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood

:hurr:


But yeah, Ratfist is pretty good.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on March 08, 2011, 09:15:42 AM
Kathy Ack (http://kathyack.tumblr.com/page/3), combining Kathy and Kathy Acker quotes. It is surprisingly amazing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on March 16, 2011, 11:18:33 PM
Even through this Bunnigus-centric episode, Howard Tayler reminds me why I like Schlock Mercenary. In a crew of genetically-engineered animals, super-soldiers, artificial intelligences and other assorted aliens, Schlock manages to stand out as the one genuine monster, the kind that eats people and isn't truly happy until something burns down or blows up.

(I also like it because I honestly enjoy it when Tagon wins, because he loses so often, but we're not seeing much of that right now.)

I can also appreciate how Howard finally splits off the party so he can a) have the non-invulnerable characters face some actual tension and b) give me the fleeting hope that Schlock will be digesting his latest unlikable female protagonist before long.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on March 18, 2011, 07:31:01 AM
In today's Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110318) the Foglios drew a giant jager general with a huge mouth yelling emphatically. It's the only thing I've ever wanted from him since he was introduced.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on March 19, 2011, 04:53:34 AM
What's with the GIANT TEXT in the most recent Penny Arcade?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on March 19, 2011, 04:58:31 AM
The one that says "GO CASEY"?  You're not supposed to see that.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on March 19, 2011, 08:39:45 AM
All the dialogue is in a bigger font than normal.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 19, 2011, 09:47:01 AM
Looks like - tentatively, hopefully - The Meek is back on track for regularly scheduled updates. Possibly even at the old twice-per-week rate.

I'm hopeful, because the recent long gaps was on account of Helmer working harder than he ever had before, rather than losing interest or just being flaky (the usual reasons for webcomic trickle-off).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on March 19, 2011, 10:16:03 AM
All the dialogue is in a bigger font than normal.

I'm not sure what you're referring to.  Looking at the Casey comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/18/) side-by-side with an older one (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/9/), it looks the same.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on March 19, 2011, 10:21:16 AM
Looks like they changed it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 19, 2011, 10:22:00 AM
an older one (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/9/)

I remember very clearly what life was like before the internet.

Now I feel like an agrarian in 1820.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on March 19, 2011, 10:40:53 AM
Looks like they changed it.

They do that sometimes. This one, (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/9/19/) for example, used to have a dialogue-free third panel, and I think it was stronger for it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on March 19, 2011, 10:52:40 AM
b) give me the fleeting hope that Schlock will be digesting his latest unlikable female protagonist before long.

Get ready for a bitter, Looney-Tunesesque string of disappointments.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on March 19, 2011, 04:15:51 PM
All the dialogue is in a bigger font than normal.

I'm not sure what you're referring to.  Looking at the Casey comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/18/) side-by-side with an older one (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/9/), it looks the same.

It's the same typeface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface), but a different font (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font).

I should have been more clear though: the letters are fucking huge.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on March 19, 2011, 04:25:53 PM
No more or less huge than the older comic, is the point.  It's not a different anything.  Open 'em up in Photoshop or something and compare words that are in both - aside from a tiny bit of anti-alias difference, they're pixel-for-pixel identical.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on March 20, 2011, 06:07:15 AM
It pretty clearly isn't.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/hugetext.png)


I'm not sure why you guys don't seem to be seeing it, but the text is goddamned massive. It's the same typeface they've always used, but they scaled it up significantly.
I mean fucking look at it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on March 20, 2011, 06:28:57 AM
nope, it is something on your end.  maybe try ctrl+f5ing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on March 20, 2011, 07:51:40 AM
Reloaded the image.
They changed it! Here's what it looked like when I read it on Friday:

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/1219834185_75SEg-L.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on March 20, 2011, 08:11:08 AM
you made that yourself, didn't you?  I'm on to your games!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on March 20, 2011, 08:46:56 AM
...
Teg==Mike!?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on March 20, 2011, 02:41:43 PM
Looks like they changed it.
I saw the giant text version when it first went up, and later on noticed that they replaced it with the current one.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 31, 2011, 06:20:23 PM
Kate Beaton linked this (http://emmycic.livejournal.com/699239.html) today and oh man. BWA HA :glee:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on March 31, 2011, 07:59:10 PM
I love all of her stuff. I'm glad she's drawing more instead of just doing the gifs.
And she and the nedroid guy are internet bffs so they draw comics together. It's actually pretty neat.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 31, 2011, 08:13:41 PM
Oh fuck, this one RULES. (http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/230682.html)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on March 31, 2011, 08:37:30 PM
(http://emmyc.com/DontSleep.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on March 31, 2011, 08:50:10 PM
Mongrel, you may also recognize that Emmy is my future wife that you seemed so fond of from Teg's original avatar.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on April 01, 2011, 07:37:12 AM
(http://emmyc.com/DealWithIt.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on April 01, 2011, 12:49:16 PM
Alice: still my favorite. (http://www.freakangels.com/?p=637)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on April 09, 2011, 10:54:34 AM
NEDROID SECRET ORIGINS:

BEARTATO (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4417811223/why-dont-we-ever-see-any-more-of-beartatos-species)

REGINALD (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4417978814/secret-origins-reginald)

HARRISON (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4418651944/secret-origins-harrison-click-for-large)

GARY (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4424809849/secret-origins-gary)

WEIRDO (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4422303318/secret-origins-weirdo-large-version)

AND SO (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/4424617523/secret-origins-conclusion)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on April 14, 2011, 06:05:31 PM
That Great Old One (http://www.optipess.com/2011/04/01/that-great-old-one/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Envy on April 15, 2011, 01:38:57 AM
That Great Old One (http://www.optipess.com/2011/04/01/that-great-old-one/)
That is the best!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on April 15, 2011, 06:27:46 PM
(http://www.independents-comic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/194881_156521897737852_100001401295556_343342_6384198_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 22, 2011, 04:29:50 PM
I'm not sure how I feel about the latest update (http://ratfist.com/page-75/) in Ratfist.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on April 22, 2011, 04:58:14 PM
So it turns out Dr. Universe has the greatest origin story ever.

(http://zedpower.dreamhosters.com/images/misc/universe.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on April 25, 2011, 06:45:21 PM
Butt humor (http://threewordphrase.com/kingbutt.htm).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on April 29, 2011, 11:37:14 AM
Oh shit I have a website and think that I am funny. (http://sharkey.gamespite.net/offline-services)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on April 29, 2011, 11:42:44 AM
OH! You updated!

I didn't know you had a PS3.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on April 29, 2011, 12:51:58 PM
OH! You updated!

I didn't know you had a PS3.

Honestly, I don't. Feeling pretty smug about that about now, actually.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 29, 2011, 04:12:51 PM
The best part is we didn't even need to pay to get stolen from.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on April 29, 2011, 09:36:22 PM
But yes, you should blog more, but in a format that's less professionally embarrassing.
You should play Vampires Vs. Werewolves IX: the X-ening.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on April 30, 2011, 01:30:38 AM
Dog heaven. (http://feelafraidcomic.com/?p=368)

Sequel! (http://feelafraidcomic.com/?p=372)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on May 06, 2011, 05:57:02 AM
Probably 3PS's best effort in a long while (http://threepanelsoul.com/comics/2011-05-04-193.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on June 03, 2011, 07:56:50 AM
Remember this? (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/) Well, now it's getting turned into a feature film. (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paramount-plots-next-animated-pic-194394)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on June 03, 2011, 08:54:02 AM
Holy shit.

...now I'm gonna be all hoping for an Automata movie that would never be as cool as it could be. Dang.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on June 03, 2011, 03:08:33 PM
Quote
...tapped "Book of Eli" writer...

 :nosir:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 03, 2011, 04:38:34 PM
Well, here's hoping Holkins gets to revise the script.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on June 03, 2011, 04:52:22 PM
Apparently it's the same guy who wrote that other Automata story (where Sam buys Carl) so I can't say I'm all that worried.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on June 03, 2011, 06:45:05 PM
Calling it now: 99% chance the PA guys are making this just to fuck with the LICD guy.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on June 03, 2011, 06:48:11 PM
Does that network show up on their radar? Isn't that the kind of thing that's beneath their notice?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on June 03, 2011, 07:04:34 PM
Considering that they just made a comic to make fun of his kickstarter page, I'd say no.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on June 03, 2011, 07:18:47 PM
Actually I'm pretty sure the Kickstarter comic was friendly ribbing directed at the Scott and Kris Show (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krisandscott/kris-and-scotts-scott-and-kris-show), which is certainly not below their radar in any way.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on June 04, 2011, 10:14:48 AM
I didn't really notice until the last panel of the current page, but Agatha's hair has really gotten out of control (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110603).  I think she's vying for main heroine of a Final Fantasy game.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on June 04, 2011, 07:30:26 PM
Quote
In Castle Heterodyne--

STILL?!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 06, 2011, 08:24:09 AM
Gunshow: NOW IN COLOR (http://gunshowcomic.com/400)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 06, 2011, 11:19:28 AM
sometimes i forget about gunshow but then i get to read a bunch at once and it is the best
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on June 06, 2011, 12:46:55 PM
Every now and then I worry about KC Green's sanity, though.

He makes a lot of brilliant things, but reading his tweets and tumblr and whatnot, he comes across as a bit of a loon. And while 90% of the time I think it's a genius act, there's that other niggling 10%.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on June 10, 2011, 06:44:02 PM
(http://emmyc.com/Tramsormers.gif)

Emmy C really is the best.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on June 17, 2011, 04:18:58 AM
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-06-17 (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-06-17)

Howard Tayler really needs to learn how to draw women. That thing's head looks like a giant peanut.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: R^2 on June 17, 2011, 05:43:41 AM
I don't read Schlock Mercenary, but it appears he only has the one head-shape for human beings in general. The head in panel 3 looks pretty much the same, and I assume it's a different, unrelated person.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on June 17, 2011, 07:04:22 AM
Reading Schlock Mercenary may indicate a congenital head defect, yes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on June 17, 2011, 10:29:30 AM
If that woman is a space-crack laser-whore than I'd say he did a stellar job.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: teg on June 17, 2011, 04:53:21 PM
OH MY GOD THESE ARE AMAZING

(http://i.imgur.com/5wr4w.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/tyYOQ.jpg)


More here (http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/hilarious-harry-potter-comics).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 18, 2011, 04:19:52 AM
This MSPA-like thing has turned out to be completely fucking adorable.  Prequel (http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37468-PREQUEL-%28thread-1%29).  A lone Khajiit tries to turn about her fortunes and get a fresh start in Cyrodiil.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on June 18, 2011, 05:52:59 AM
completely fucking adorable.

Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on June 18, 2011, 08:33:58 AM
This MSPA-like thing has turned out to be completely fucking adorable.  Prequel (http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37468-PREQUEL-%28thread-1%29).  A lone Khajiit tries to turn about her fortunes and get a fresh start in Cyrodiil.

:0

:D

(http://www.mspaforums.com/images/smilies/apple.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Kayma on June 24, 2011, 02:26:03 AM
Never liked MSPA, and I never played Oblivion, but I sure did just binge on Prequel.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on June 24, 2011, 03:13:44 AM
The comic really is good enough to have its own site, but I guess there is a very rabid fanbase on the MSPA forums.

Too bad, because I'd like to have a better way to navigate the pages and comb for updates.  At the moment, I'm just bookmarking the latest post and periodically checking for the ===> to appear, and then bookmarking the new post.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on June 24, 2011, 05:37:19 AM
Someone made a feed that updates only with the creator's posts.  It also contains posts that are just posts rather than updates, but it is a way to look for updates. (http://demented.no-ip.org/~feep/mspatest.cgi?author=Kazerad)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on June 24, 2011, 10:18:14 AM
I love Prequel. It's super-cute and funny and it's in the Elder Scrolls universe.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 27, 2011, 01:59:14 PM
The Prince and the Sea (http://emcarroll.com/comics/prince/andthesea.html) by Emily Carroll
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on June 28, 2011, 09:26:51 AM
Hiimdaisy must really enjoy doing Cucumber Quest (http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/). Nearly every time I check it, there's a full-color update or two.

Compare her various video game parady strips, while long, were pretty much just doodles she cobbled together, and still took months at a time to update.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on June 30, 2011, 04:15:06 AM
Kate knocks it out of the park, into another park, and beans a pitcher in a totally different game. Again. (http://beatonna.livejournal.com/148564.html#cutid1)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 01, 2011, 07:39:04 PM
Anybody ever see this?

Busted Wonder (http://www.bustedwonder.com/)

Quite good!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on July 17, 2011, 07:36:17 PM
Calling it: Schlock's metabolism is good enough at biochemistry that he can staunch and disinfect Shep's wounds himself, but he needs to physically attach to him until he can get real medical attention. Meanwhile, Shep regains consciousness, isn't too freaked out about his circumstances because he used to have a symbiote, and proceeds to fight off the goons while wearing Schlock as a sort of sentient power armor.

...okay, not so much "calling it" as "wishing that's what would actually happen".
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on July 17, 2011, 09:48:23 PM
Never liked MSPA, and I never played Oblivion, but I sure did just binge on Prequel.

Same. I was like "Eh, I dunno." But just the way it's written and drawn it is just amazing to read. I hit the current update and I was legitimately sad.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2011, 06:39:38 AM
Pablo the Cuban Alligator (http://alexpuvilland.com/pablo/pablo01.htm)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on July 19, 2011, 06:46:00 PM
You know, I like Kate Beaton, but I'm not as in-love with her as everybody else is on the Internet. Her comics are funny a lot of the time, but I don't really get much out of them beyond that. Except her Nancy Drew. Her Nancy Drew is pretty great.

Also: this. This is pretty great. (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=314)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 23, 2011, 12:57:04 PM
Katia got herself a webzone, now.  http://prequeladventure.com (http://prequeladventure.com)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on July 23, 2011, 01:02:28 PM
:victory:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on July 23, 2011, 04:47:53 PM
Katia got herself a webzone, now.  http://prequeladventure.com (http://prequeladventure.com)

:cake:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on July 23, 2011, 06:27:43 PM
Just went to check my bookmarks and noticed that the Prequel icon is a pineapple. ::3:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on July 24, 2011, 05:40:28 AM
I'm sorry, this is too moe for me.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 24, 2011, 10:42:06 PM
*ALARUM* WHOOP! WHOOP! *ALARUM*

Holy crap! A new PBF! (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF250-Uncle_Duncan.jpg)

WHOOP! WHOOP!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on July 28, 2011, 10:24:21 AM
I've never really followed MSPA much but Prequel is just a delight. I am delighted.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on July 29, 2011, 12:35:40 PM
Total lady boner right now.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 30, 2011, 08:29:48 AM
Fffffffffffffffffffff

I wasn't supposed to catch up, man. They told me this wouldn't happen!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 01, 2011, 01:11:33 PM
Time to make me feel like a dumb for no longer regularly reading Awkward Zombie: two comics (http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=072511)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on August 04, 2011, 05:56:03 PM
God this Prequel update schedule is HELL

I am in HELL right now

WHY DID YOU PEOPLE SHOW THIS TO ME BEFORE IT WAS DONE
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on August 05, 2011, 08:25:27 AM
So today's the last Ratfist.
I can't really tell you what happened in the last 10 pages but I CAN tell you the end came to soon. And not in a "Oh this is so good I want it to go forever" way.

I think the whole thing was about... how people are animals and... uh...


Why could he have just made a slightly silly super hero comic like it started out as?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 05, 2011, 01:10:27 PM
Because he knew the people that cared stopped reading when his family showed up for a few days of updates.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on August 07, 2011, 02:59:40 AM
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l74/Ziiro/story622.gif)
(http://prequeladventure.com/this/story623.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on August 07, 2011, 06:11:05 AM
To be fair, the only fish in Cyrodiil are slaughterfish, so it probably deserves it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 14, 2011, 06:42:10 PM
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b149/Rygaron/reversesuicide.jpg)


so dubblebaby (http://dubblebaby.blogspot.com/) is pretty good
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 14, 2011, 07:01:23 PM
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b149/Rygaron/reversesuicide.jpg)


so dubblebaby (http://dubblebaby.blogspot.com/) is pretty good

Even better (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r9P96la5Ndg/TWSG9aNSZZI/AAAAAAAABIk/mzpXC29p46M/s1600/robot+maid+web+1.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 14, 2011, 07:55:51 PM
Even better (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r9P96la5Ndg/TWSG9aNSZZI/AAAAAAAABIk/mzpXC29p46M/s1600/robot+maid+web+1.jpg)

post the second part you knob (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CEMa9fGRRxU/TWSG__AcmdI/AAAAAAAABIo/xUTQawHCdeI/s1600/robot+maid+web+2.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 14, 2011, 08:07:44 PM
Oh shit, I thought it was all one image.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 14, 2011, 08:20:17 PM
Measure twice, link once.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on August 15, 2011, 10:31:34 AM
That comic just makes me miss Perry Bible Fellowship more.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 15, 2011, 11:57:44 AM
I want someone to translate it into Japanese.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 17, 2011, 08:17:10 AM
Two new ones.

Power Nap (http://www.powernapcomic.com/d/20110617.html)

Battle Pug (http://battlepug.com/2011/02/14/it-begins/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 26, 2011, 02:59:45 AM
(http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/8089888521/1/tumblr_loxyvtkw7o1qko73s)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on August 30, 2011, 07:25:07 AM
Someone asked the creator of Manly Guys doing manly things to add Bishonen characters. (http://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/9419204190/logged-in-to-approve-some-comments-and-saw-this) The response was "Here's what I think of your animes." (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/899)

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Where a lesser webcomic artist might say “Thank you for being so presumptuous as to think I want you to write my webcomic for me, how about you run along to one of the hundreds of millions of places on the internet where everybody natters on about their amazing porcelain doll animu boys and let me draw my macho guys in peace”, but I’m made of stiffer stuff than that. Here are your bishiiii~*~ comics as requested.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on September 06, 2011, 10:35:41 AM
http://www.hejibits.com/comics/breadwinner/ (http://www.hejibits.com/comics/breadwinner/)

get it
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on September 07, 2011, 09:29:27 PM
http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/9899907863/if-reginald-and-beartato-were-pokemon-what-movesets (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/9899907863/if-reginald-and-beartato-were-pokemon-what-movesets)

http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/9900440233/supplemental-material-to-the-previous-question (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/9900440233/supplemental-material-to-the-previous-question)

http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/9903025717/no-if-they-were-digimon-they-would-look-like (http://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/9903025717/no-if-they-were-digimon-they-would-look-like)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 08, 2011, 03:45:12 AM
Can't stop laughing at the gun in Beartato's final form.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 08, 2011, 07:39:04 AM
So hey here's a piece of shit NSFW webcomic (http://www.harrington-artwerkes.com/Lana.htm) called Spying with Lana. Now, the art's actually pretty decent -- kind of reminiscent of Ignacio Noé, (which is a good thing), sans a lot of the humor that Noé gets across with just his artwork. Now, I haven't read almost a single word the guy has written, but that's because he's pretty obviously a complete idiot, as evidence by the fact that he's got written at the top of his page "for ages 13+" and as of right now the current comic depicts a lesbian three-way in front of a bunch of shirtless dudes, implying that he thinks that its okay for kids to look at his stuff if he just doesn't draw nipples and vaginas.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on September 08, 2011, 08:13:43 AM
I would argue that it's okay for kids 13 and above to be aware of lesbian threesomes
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on September 08, 2011, 08:48:43 AM
That's about as PG-13 as Empowered. Which is to say, not at all.

Also, what the hell is up with the site's formatting? It's ugly and user unfriendly. You'd think a like that it would be easier to navigate with one hand, but no.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 08, 2011, 02:58:59 PM
He doesn't even have basic obvious forward/back buttons.  :ohgod:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 08, 2011, 03:16:59 PM
jesus I couldn't even go back far enough to give the plot a chance. There is literally a scene where a henchman tears off her clothes and penetrates her in one fluid motion and the reaction is "oh man and this was supposed to be an easy job  :whoops:"

I don't care what kind of super agent you are, bad puns are for when you kill a dude, not when you are in the middle of being raped.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on September 08, 2011, 03:30:40 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/kj24h.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/181P4.png)


Randomly clicked something and read the page. There ya go.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 08, 2011, 03:37:02 PM
Oh man.

With the possible exception of her boss, every male character in the entire strip appears to be fat white trash.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on September 08, 2011, 04:01:58 PM
You're making this somehow sound like the storyboard for a film I'm writing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on September 08, 2011, 04:27:04 PM
Oh man.

With the possible exception of her boss, every male character in the entire strip appears to be fat white trash.

Know your audience.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on September 08, 2011, 06:02:05 PM
I like the art before he started adding that ugly photoshop plastic coloring to everything.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 08, 2011, 07:06:40 PM
Having read a bit, it is actually kind of funny.

Just, not for the intended reasons.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 09, 2011, 04:51:32 AM
I like the art before he started adding that ugly photoshop plastic coloring to everything.

I think the main problem is that he only uses black lines as outlines for his figures rather than giving his figures form, and instead relies too much on his shading to give his art pop. End result: it looks flat.

Also the fact that he creates situations that render the main character naked, but then does everything he can to keep from showing nudity, which really just shatters the flow of each panel.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on September 09, 2011, 11:18:28 AM
maybe you didn't notice that you can buy the UNRATED versions for a low low price, thus making the existence of the webcomic as it is clear
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 09, 2011, 12:52:46 PM
Eh, maybe. It actually looks like the unrated comics are stand alones. Also: check out the top webcomic NSFW voting incentive (http://topwebcomics.com/vote/8553/default.aspx). And by 'check out' I mean 'gaze in horror'.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 09, 2011, 01:05:30 PM
I want an x-ray of her spine, stat
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 21, 2011, 07:47:09 AM
So the Axe Cop guy is making a new comic about a mutant bear-based apocalypse (http://bearmageddon.com/). It is not written by 5 year old.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on September 21, 2011, 08:48:56 AM
The character with the green hair is insufferable.

Because I have a friend who is that guy.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on October 01, 2011, 09:24:38 AM
NEW PBF (http://www.pbfcomics.com/251/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on October 04, 2011, 12:15:50 AM
So happy Fanboys is back. (http://fanboys-online.com/?p=64)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on October 13, 2011, 05:34:03 PM
I'm starting to come around to Awkward Zombie (http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=101110).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Doom on October 13, 2011, 05:59:30 PM
You're months behind, dude. (http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=030711)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on October 13, 2011, 06:39:23 PM
I get Benton vibes. I think on account of her nailing the expressions (http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=081511) so often.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 25, 2011, 06:53:36 AM
So I didn't get the Marvel halloween thing, but Kate is going to put up some of the strips on her blog. Kraven the Hunter (http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/kraventhehunter.png).

 :glee:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on October 25, 2011, 10:38:40 AM
Not a Halloween comic, that's from Strange Tales II, which was released a few months back and was amazing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 26, 2011, 03:13:17 PM
Holy shit-on-a-shingle. The Meek actually started updating again.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: fullmooninu on October 27, 2011, 08:26:45 AM
has anybody read a comic about a republican tv host that starts eating endangered species on live television?

then he becomes a giant and eats whales and stuff.

ive been trying to find that one for a long time. if you know it, tell me.


Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 02, 2011, 08:49:40 PM
New PBF (http://pbfcomics.com/252/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on November 02, 2011, 09:23:16 PM
has anybody read a comic about a republican tv host that starts eating endangered species on live television?

then he becomes a giant and eats whales and stuff.

ive been trying to find that one for a long time. if you know it, tell me.




http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/000.html (http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/000.html)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on November 03, 2011, 07:01:54 AM
(http://www.threewordphrase.com/apocalypse.gif) (http://threewordphrase.com)

If you guys don't read Three Word Phrase then there is something wrong with you.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: fullmooninu on November 04, 2011, 11:34:46 AM
ty Zaratustra !
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on November 04, 2011, 11:48:18 AM
has anybody read a comic about a republican tv host that starts eating endangered species on live television?

then he becomes a giant and eats whales and stuff.

ive been trying to find that one for a long time. if you know it, tell me.




http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/000.html (http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/rusheats/000.html)

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(http://i.imgur.com/1rf0o.png)

 :whoops:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 05, 2011, 05:31:03 AM
Dubblebaby (http://dubblebaby.blogspot.com/) does, in fact, still exist it seems.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 05, 2011, 11:05:42 AM
Speaking of webcomics about Dracula, Kurt Busiek has started writing one (http://draculacomic.com/series/dracula-the-company-of-monsters-page-01.html).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 07, 2011, 07:28:09 PM
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5449/cadamazon.png)

 :glee:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 07, 2011, 07:35:52 PM
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5449/cadamazon.png)

 :glee:
That is a great idea.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on November 07, 2011, 08:50:11 PM
Wait, why bother hanging from a ceiling fan? Isn't that just extra hassle?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 07, 2011, 11:08:15 PM
Do they even sell nooses pre-tied?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on November 08, 2011, 12:52:04 AM
They'd have to or else they'd be selling just rope.
DIY projects don't sell to suicidal people.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on November 08, 2011, 11:57:14 AM
But they still gotta install the ceiling fan.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Dooly on November 08, 2011, 06:54:24 PM
Who writes a positive review for a noose?  If it worked, the guy who bought it is dead.  If the guy's still alive, the noose failed and he would write a negative review.  His surviving loved ones sure wouldn't sing the noose's praises.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Norondor on November 08, 2011, 07:06:43 PM
guys have you heard of this new program that lets you make pictures on your very own computer
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Norondor on November 08, 2011, 07:06:56 PM
"photoshop," they're calling it
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on November 08, 2011, 07:09:23 PM
Who writes a positive review for a noose?  If it worked, the guy who bought it is dead.  If the guy's still alive, the noose failed and he would write a negative review.  His surviving loved ones sure wouldn't sing the noose's praises.

`What about people that need to hang -other people-?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zach on November 08, 2011, 07:54:15 PM
His surviving loved ones sure wouldn't sing the noose's praises.

1 STAR: NO NOOSE IS GOOD NOOSE.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on November 08, 2011, 09:00:16 PM
Who writes a positive review for a noose?  If it worked, the guy who bought it is dead.  If the guy's still alive, the noose failed and he would write a negative review.  His surviving loved ones sure wouldn't sing the noose's praises.
Yeah, you could definitely use it for hanging others.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Dooly on November 09, 2011, 01:41:45 AM
A+++++ WOULD MURDER WITH AGAIN
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 09, 2011, 06:03:29 AM
(http://www.greatplainsexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/693150-colonmustard_large.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: R^2 on November 09, 2011, 08:54:24 AM
So all the positive reviews are from south of the Mason-Dixon line?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 15, 2011, 03:34:21 PM
(http://webcomicoverlook.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/screen-shot-2011-11-13-at-5-28-35-pm.png?w=584&h=380)

FINALLY.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on November 23, 2011, 11:00:59 AM
Achewood updates. (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11232011)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 26, 2011, 05:53:57 PM
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (http://www.delilahdirk.com/content/)

Professional European-grade artwork! The story's silly in a Steampunk kind of way (only with way more punk than steam), but is still fun.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 01, 2011, 06:39:10 PM
The joke never gets old

(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lviwn9udph1r5pvhjo1_500.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 01, 2011, 08:30:19 PM
loss.jpg
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on December 09, 2011, 04:22:40 PM
Speaking of webcomics about Dracula, Kurt Busiek has started writing one (http://draculacomic.com/series/dracula-the-company-of-monsters-page-01.html).

It's pretty amusing how Dracula is getting depicted as more righteous and compassionate than the ruthless CEO character. Transparent, but amusing.

Also liking the not-Belmonts a bunch, even with what little we've seen of them so far.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2011, 05:55:11 PM
Man, I am probably the only person bugged by this, but the idea of a writer trying to claim Vlad Tepes could have owned shares in the East India company drives me CRAZY. :rage:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 09, 2011, 05:58:07 PM
Why?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2011, 06:03:23 PM
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia 1431–1476

- Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope, proving the Indian Ocean is not landlocked 1488
- Christopher Columbus' Journey to Hispaniola 1492
- Vasco da Gama becomes the first European to reach India via sea routes since the Classical Era.
- British East India Company, founded in 1600
- Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602
- Danish East India Company, founded in 1616
- Portuguese East India Company, founded in 1628
- French East India Company, founded in 1664
- Swedish East India Company, founded in 1731

There's lazy writing and then there's COME THE FUCK ONNNNNN, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on December 09, 2011, 06:08:55 PM
We are talking about a fictional undying Vlad Tepes here.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2011, 06:42:04 PM
Yeah, but that's a 200-year-old meme (or, arguably, 535-years old).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on December 09, 2011, 07:23:30 PM
Not sure what you're getting at.  The comic is clear on the points that he is definitely The Vlad III of Wallachia, Dracula Țepeș, and that his historically recorded death didn't take for very long.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on December 09, 2011, 07:48:07 PM
I think he's implying that Dracula having holds on the company is some bit of debunked-slander that's been around for 200-years?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I think he's implying that Dracula having holds on the company is some bit of debunked-slander that's been around for 200-years?

No. I'm flat-out saying that the author is claiming a character who dies in 1476 held stock in a company that didn't exist until 1600. That a character from pre-Columbian Europe is casually familiar with post age-of-exploration concepts.

Maybe you guys think he's come back on other occasions? Because I think the comic has done a terrible job of explaining if this is his first resurrection or just the most recent of many. I'm currently operating on the basis that this is his first resurrection, but went to look again in case you guys read it differently.

In favour of this being the 1st resurrection:
- His body being in the same place as it was earlier as well as the books also being stored in the same location (you don't need deep archaeology if he's been bouncing out of tombs every 50 years and being candy-coated by a new bunch of groupies each time he gets killed again - nothing like that is even remotely hinted).
- The protagonist is sure acting like this is the first resurrection - he's presented as a thorough researcher and only mentions stuff that's contemporary to Vlad's 1st life or is current. Not some supposed manifestations from the 17th century.

In favour of this being the most recent of many resurrections:
- He uh... knows English? That could be chalked up to bad writing too though.
- Those Simo-Belmo guys seem to have fought a lot of vampires, going back for some time. But then they show those bat-creatures as the enemy.
- He sure owned that stock!

Neutral:
- The Ottoman courtesan is holding his head in that one panel, but then it's merged with the body when they find it. But that doesn't really mean much. In fact it could support EITHER theory.

So I suppose regardless of which version it is, the story's been piss-poor for clearing that up.

I'm not even going to nitpick about how silly it is to think that holding stock in a modern company is anything like holding stock in a seventeenth century proto-corporation. Or of a Romanian noble holding stock in an exclusive English/Dutch/whatever in the same. Like I can let that go, but if this is his first resurrection this is not-knowing-when-the-war-of-1812-happened levels of silliness.

Maybe I've just been spoiled by Mike Mignola. He at least managed the trick of making 2+2=4 while still leaving space for Cthulhu and vampires. 
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on December 09, 2011, 08:27:03 PM
He also knows English. Is it ever specified when he's actually killed and turned into a human Kellog's?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on December 09, 2011, 09:37:14 PM
I don't think we've been made aware of his most recent death yet.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 09, 2011, 10:15:53 PM
He is Dracula, after all.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on December 09, 2011, 10:37:43 PM
Because I think the comic has done a terrible job of explaining if this is his first resurrection or just the most recent of many.

http://draculacomic.com/series/vlad-is-resurrected.html (http://draculacomic.com/series/vlad-is-resurrected.html)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2011, 11:07:37 PM
So the only proper confirmation is the name of the URL.

Way to go Busiek. That's some awesome writing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 09, 2011, 11:18:22 PM
He's obviously being resurrected, and obviously in the past. Is there something ambiguous about the events of that page, apart from the year?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on December 09, 2011, 11:45:15 PM
The whole scenario played out adds up to an elaborate plan to get beheaded, sent to his enemy's palace, and then resurrected right in the middle of it.  They don't exactly spell it out in writing though.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on December 10, 2011, 10:11:46 AM
I'd like to point out that it's not actually written by Busiek. The writer is Daryl Gregory.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 10, 2011, 02:31:25 PM
Whoops.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 18, 2011, 11:59:15 AM
Oh man, today's Oglaf.  :lol:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on January 05, 2012, 03:27:04 PM
Wow, so there is one thing that really irritates me about Company of Monsters. Whoever is doing the lettering only ever bolds entire lines.

Quote from: http://draculacomic.com/series/evan-is-trapped.html
I have a plan
to save B.I. But for
it to work, we need
the secrets of the
Scholomance.

Oh, and
good news from
Romania. The team's
opened another
chamber.

Quote from: http://draculacomic.com/series/evan-asks-a-favor.html
I'm pretty proud
of it. Spring-loaded
ash stakes. Shielded
crucifixes. A micro-
nozzle array for
holy water. A few
other surprises.

Quote from: http://draculacomic.com/series/a-prince-and-a-ceo.html
Their head of network
security is attending
a conference near here.

On the other hand he's clearly able to italicize individual words, so I'm not sure what's going on.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on January 05, 2012, 04:01:29 PM
I think the bolding is some artifact of whatever paint program they're using.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on January 17, 2012, 10:03:19 PM
And then Katia was eaten by fish.  The end.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 18, 2012, 03:16:06 PM
What? Were you raised by wolves? (http://verabee.com/wolf/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on January 18, 2012, 03:35:58 PM
Oh wow. That's fantastic.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 20, 2012, 09:01:25 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/l6YN7.jpg)

Eat More Bikes (http://eatmorebikes.blogspot.com/) is pretty great.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on February 12, 2012, 03:24:03 PM
(http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/7199/20120207224.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on February 12, 2012, 03:43:11 PM
"it was absolutely useless. Thanks" - Roger Ebert
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on February 13, 2012, 07:05:34 AM
Apparently the guy had to change the hair color of the girl in today's Nedroid comic to blonde after the internet exploded thinking it was either Emmy Cicierega or Kate Beaton.

(I'd link but it's a bitch on a phone.)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on February 13, 2012, 01:11:35 PM
Nedroid hasn't used Generic Human Love Interest in a while, I guess.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 13, 2012, 07:45:57 PM
Apparently the guy had to change the hair color of the girl in today's Nedroid comic to blonde after the internet exploded thinking it was either Emmy Cicierega or Kate Beaton.

(I'd link but it's a bitch on a phone.)

Link (http://nedroid.com/2012/02/i-valentried/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on March 03, 2012, 11:43:19 AM
Oh by the way there's a comic called Vibe (http://www.vibecomic.com/index.html). So far it looks like it's basically a shonen fighting comic, only American-made and about a black kid with voodoo magic.

It's quite stylish, so I'm keeping my eye on it. Just wish it would update more often.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 07, 2012, 05:34:25 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/Ae0cY.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/8LgKi.jpg)

Kate Beaton is the best.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on March 07, 2012, 07:08:55 AM
That's fantastic.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on March 07, 2012, 10:17:35 AM
I thought the feminists were Venusians though...
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Dooly on March 07, 2012, 07:39:39 PM
Without men around they're so technologically advanced they made a moon colony.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on March 13, 2012, 08:41:15 PM
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/sluggy.png)

Sluggy Freelance: so convoluted that Pete Abrams has to outright state that a logo is a new plot element because he would feel guilty about insane fans archive-diving 15 years of daily comics in search of a reference that doesn't exist
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 13, 2012, 09:15:52 PM
Haven't even seen the strip by accident for years.

I must say: I think the quality of his drawing has actually... worsened?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on March 13, 2012, 10:09:55 PM
Ehhh, in general I don't know if I'd say "worsened", but he's clearly been having pacing issues for a while (on top of, you know, all the other issues), and his making longer daily comics to hasten the rhythm (and in too many cases, to get through very necessary recaps faster) can't be good for his art.

On the other hand maybe he has worsened, but on a very long time scale, and it hasn't happened fast enough for me to notice. :shrug:

I'm still following it, but not enough to keep an accurate internal idea of what's going on with every thread. I think the main thing that I'm curious about is how Doctor Schlock will end up after being put in the role of reluctant villain oh-so-long ago. And I want to see if the Dimension of Pain <---> R&D Wars mutagen connection holds up. But mostly I stick around because I haven't been offended with a "this ain't worth my daily 30 seconds" epiphany yet. Like what happened with, say, General Protection Fault or whatever other comics I stopped following over the years.

...wow, GPF (http://www.gpf-comics.com/) is still around. And judging from today's strip I really have no regrets.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on March 14, 2012, 04:30:44 AM
Sluggy Freelance

General Protection Fault

STOP THAT
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on March 14, 2012, 12:05:44 PM
You mean, rattling the dusty bones of shamblers best left forgotten, or something else?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on March 14, 2012, 08:14:47 PM
yes that

next thing you know i'm going to be remembering bruno the banFUCK
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on March 14, 2012, 11:08:11 PM
AAAAAUGH

actually i remember quitting that one on account of its clumsily mocking the separatist movement

but i would have eventually anyway on account of

well

of it being what it was really
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on March 30, 2012, 05:01:39 PM
Buttersafe (http://buttersafe.com/2012/03/29/moon-junior/) would've done it again, if they had ever stopped doing it.


It is good comics.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on March 30, 2012, 05:53:17 PM
I tend to be reluctant to follow webcomic recommendations because the best case scenario involves spending hours at a time devouring the archives.

It is good comics.

Y... yeah. It is.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 30, 2012, 08:26:11 PM
(http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20120323-bb.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on March 30, 2012, 08:43:47 PM
every other new gunshow is a surreal horror story.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on May 15, 2012, 02:57:31 AM
I knew there was a PFSC kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children?ref=home_popular[/url) but didn't check the rewards until now.
And boy, are they great.

Quote
PLEDGE $100 OR MORE
3 BACKERS SOLD OUT (0 of 3 remaining)
a signed/drawn in copy of "sad pictures for children" and i will take a homeless person to eat somewhere and ask them about their life. i will then give them $100, and make a comic about them or about the experience. Then I will send you the original pages of the comic.

Quote
PLEDGE $1000 OR MORE
0 BACKERS
both books, prints, sketches, and i will travel to the city you live in and put up a large number of paste-ups in that city over the course of about one week, longer depending on if/how much i get arrested. continental u.s. only unless you are willing to pay for travel.



And the best thing is the $100 option was the first one paid for.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on May 25, 2012, 08:02:01 AM
Sailor Twain is finally over.

:(((((((((
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Spikey on June 13, 2012, 09:50:49 AM
Re: Today's Gunnerkrigg Court: (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1051)

(http://i.imgur.com/wOg6k.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 13, 2012, 10:50:27 PM
There's a reason that the first words out of the mouth of an angel typically are "be not afraid".
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on June 13, 2012, 11:28:00 PM
Well, there are far fewer reports of other words being the first out of the mouth of an angel, anyway.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: R^2 on June 14, 2012, 05:14:34 AM
"Dude, how are you not shitting yourself right now? I've got six wings, yo. And lucky you they're covering most of me. You totally cannot handle this divine radiance I got goin' on."
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on June 23, 2012, 06:56:09 PM
Man oh man is 3 Panel Soul ever getting grim and bitter.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on June 27, 2012, 02:21:48 PM
(http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20120618-larryshorney.png)

Legitimately trying not to lose it at work after seeing this one. The payoff of that last panel is something else!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: R^2 on July 03, 2012, 02:11:02 PM
Does the doctor in Oglaf have a canon name? Because I just mentally referred to her as "Dr. Acula".
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 04, 2012, 06:15:30 AM
Not that I can recall, but that is at least now her professional name.  Between the good doctor and little miss no-fun, I'm not too entirely sad about the MIA apprentice.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 04, 2012, 06:50:43 AM
Hasn't miss no-fun shown up many times before the current storyline?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 04, 2012, 07:15:28 AM
They both have.  They're just really getting to shine, now.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on July 04, 2012, 08:40:14 AM
Does the doctor in Oglaf have a canon name? Because I just mentally referred to her as "Dr. Acula".

Pretty sure it's Dr. Navan. (http://oglaf.com/furniture/2/)

Wait, the doctor's shown up before this storyline?  Remind me when?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on July 04, 2012, 08:49:36 AM
She's the vampire-thing that kidnapped "the slut".
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 04, 2012, 10:03:56 AM
First shown here (http://oglaf.com/high-noon/4/), but you don't see her properly until here (http://oglaf.com/nightfall/1/).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on July 04, 2012, 10:34:31 AM
Hasn't miss no-fun shown up many times before the current storyline?

Her name is Greir (http://oglaf.wikia.com/wiki/Greir).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 04, 2012, 06:41:49 PM
Oh god, there's a Wiki.

I suppose I should have known.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 20, 2012, 09:12:15 PM
Oh my word, the latest Kate Beaton (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=339)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 22, 2012, 06:53:35 PM
The fifth panel in today's Oglaf is something else. :glee:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 27, 2012, 10:55:35 AM
(http://pandyland.net/comics/2012-05-21-gorefield.png)

So Pandyland is pretty good times.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Shinra on July 28, 2012, 08:55:39 AM
This month's subnormality is heavy:

http://www.viruscomix.com/page567.html (http://www.viruscomix.com/page567.html)


for added fun listen to this while you read it: http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/austin-atlantis (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/austin-atlantis)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on July 28, 2012, 09:34:20 AM
That was actually pretty -=weeeooooowwww=- good!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Shinra on July 28, 2012, 09:52:47 AM
Subnormality is very WORDS but if you can devote the time to sit down and read it, it's amazingly well down. Esp. the short story pieces like that one.

edit: there's that fucking tumor again, well down? really? why am I fucking doing this?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on August 02, 2012, 05:16:03 AM
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7zygz4e6V1qh93gno1_1280.jpg)

Adventure Wizard (http://kylestarks.com/?p=831) is the story of a Wizard from space named Caramon who battles the evil lord Jerry.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on August 02, 2012, 07:07:31 AM
A wizard named WHAT?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 02, 2012, 08:20:10 AM
I gotta admit, that comic is pretty frikkin' sweet.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Shinra on August 06, 2012, 09:48:19 AM
since it got clipped


The Subnormality guy (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xpvnj/heyy_i_do_the_webcomic_subnormality_as_well_as/) did an AMA on Reddit yesterday, interesting stuff. I know I said it earlier, but seriously guys this is a Great Comic.


Here's some good material:

http://www.viruscomix.com/page474.html (http://www.viruscomix.com/page474.html)

http://www.viruscomix.com/page505.html (http://www.viruscomix.com/page505.html) (most of you have probably seen this one)

edit:

http://www.viruscomix.com/page473.html (http://www.viruscomix.com/page473.html) - this is how I introduced my wife to the comic, who unfortunately can't really read most of it because she's farsighted and gets a headache.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on August 06, 2012, 10:13:18 AM
Since it also got clipped, Cucumber Quest is really neat! (http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/)  Kinda wish the site didn't waste all that vertical space on the header but otherwise it is a good read and worth looking through.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on August 31, 2012, 06:04:11 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/TyKcD.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/frz5T.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/x6ZF9.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on August 31, 2012, 06:22:34 PM
No genitals, those cosplayers suck.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on August 31, 2012, 07:11:22 PM
I think it's just that the photographer was really good and captured the 10% of the time that the cosplayers weren't debauching.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on August 31, 2012, 08:13:53 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/TyKcD.jpg)

Wh-

That guy looks nothing like Lottel!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 11, 2012, 06:58:02 AM
(http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/653282023.png?key=10521026&Expires=1347376458&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=xK8YWEcCLG-ET5ZQ1lu36LCM8jkvB-oXu2HHg4-j8H-iMwS01P47Wlo3zQ1RaH2tgom8ZNBAXlKeJpgrglesppKYnUkmQ9R3Hn53ibJaBjRJFHFGjsoO6PfHyeUjYF6paFtdR4Vw01htQkEGBeqsadLnY~FQ2m5xxzaJjpC1ng4_)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on September 11, 2012, 07:33:42 AM
Whatever that is, it doesn't work, Mongrel.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 11, 2012, 07:40:56 AM
If you're saying it's a broken image, looks fine to me.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 11, 2012, 08:13:25 AM
If the direct link isn't working, you can check it out directly on Kate's Tumblr (http://beatonna.tumblr.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 14, 2012, 01:39:56 AM
Jeeze Coyote, why you gotta be creepin' on Ysengrin like tha (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1090) :ohshi~:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 15, 2012, 02:39:42 PM
Squizzle linked The Criminal Lawyer's Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law (http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/) in IRC early and I have since read the absolute poop out of it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 15, 2012, 04:30:40 PM
Wow, that's almost Larry Gonick levels of awesome.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 17, 2012, 04:53:28 AM
so... uh... did KC Green just end Gun Show?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 17, 2012, 05:09:10 AM
Looks like he just Achewooded it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 17, 2012, 06:36:03 AM
He's got some thing going on at slipshine, I think.  Might be eating up time he had for gunshow, and I think he actually gets paid for the slipshine thing, so hey.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on September 19, 2012, 11:11:17 AM
Again I can't copy paste but John Campbell of Pictures for Sad Children fame admits to pretending to be depresses for profit and apologizes.

It's an interesting read and you should check out the post on the PFSC kickstarter
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 19, 2012, 11:42:12 AM
I was just about to link it myself!

Here it is. (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/311890)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on September 20, 2012, 04:14:29 AM
I had to read that like eight times before understanding it was some sort of ultra-sarcastic reply to hypothetical people that are claiming he pretends to be depressed.

I still can't understand -why- he would do it as a public post on kickstarter. Of course, a hallmark of depression is that you do this sort of thing in such a way that it will only piss off the people that genuinely care about you.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 20, 2012, 04:36:33 AM
Oglaf has been offline for a while, now.  Hope everything is okay.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on September 20, 2012, 05:21:13 AM
Bodil Bodilson ‏@Oglaf
The site problem is a hardware one with the host, not us. They're apparently trying to sort it out, so that's why it's still wonky.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 21, 2012, 07:04:47 AM
I had to read that like eight times before understanding it was some sort of ultra-sarcastic reply to hypothetical people that are claiming he pretends to be depressed.

I still can't understand -why- he would do it as a public post on kickstarter. Of course, a hallmark of depression is that you do this sort of thing in such a way that it will only piss off the people that genuinely care about you.

welp (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/313179)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 21, 2012, 08:23:53 AM
Thanks for all the money. Just reminding you I'm a dick!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on September 21, 2012, 08:37:52 AM
So either his depression is making him lie, or he's lying about his depression making him lie.

Look.

Who the fuck cares?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on September 21, 2012, 08:56:37 AM
it's the first case of terminal sarcasm in recorded science
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Friday on September 21, 2012, 09:26:15 AM
I immediately permanently disregard anyone who has a photo like that of themselves as their avatar.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 11, 2012, 07:41:26 AM
(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-9JTxn3s/0/L/i-9JTxn3s-X3.jpg)
(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-CtrnBLs/0/L/i-CtrnBLs-X3.jpg)

Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on October 11, 2012, 10:38:32 AM
Furries, am I right, guys?

While we're at the cutting edge of comedy, let's go check out Maddox and watch a Strongbad email.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on October 11, 2012, 11:13:17 AM
I think this is specifically about Otherkin.

.. which is like, what furries started calling themselves so they'd stop being fursecuted, right?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on October 11, 2012, 11:17:34 AM
I kept thinking there must be some more subtle joke or reference that I was missing there, but then I remembered that I was reading PA.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on October 11, 2012, 11:34:34 AM
I think the joke is explained or elaborated upon in the news feed.
...
But finding that joker image would take effort.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on October 11, 2012, 11:58:57 AM
Furries, am I right, guys?

While we're at the cutting edge of comedy, let's go check out Maddox and watch a Strongbad email.

Check your privilege, Buge.  Otherkin are being oppressed every day. (http://felkes.tumblr.com/post/23019812161/hello-you-might-know-me-as-lanina-from-werelist-i)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on October 11, 2012, 12:02:28 PM
I thought furry was anthropomorphized animal, and otherkin was believing you're your favorite video game character / a dragon with more genitals than most entire species.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: on October 11, 2012, 01:21:11 PM
I thought furry was anthropomorphized animal, and otherkin was believing you're your favorite video game character / a dragon with more genitals than most entire species.

Otherkin is specifically "I believe I am an animal". There's a name for the videogame/anime one, Otakukin. AnimeNewsnetwork did a thing on them once, and then did 3 more things on them when people wrote in screaming insults that how dare they insinuate that their belief that they're realling Naruto or Kenshin or Goku is complete batshit insanity and when their powers awaken they were going to get so mad at them.

Welcome to the internet: Everyone is crazy.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ziiro on October 11, 2012, 01:23:01 PM
Furry: People who identify as a furry because they like the "culture" - be it the porn or dressing up in a fursuit.
Otherkin: People who feel like they are not human. They have the soul/spirit of a fantasy thing/animal/video game character(I'm serious (https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Otakukin). Warning: Encyclopedia Dramatica Link)

Obvious there's overlap. But they're separate groups.

On another note: I read that whole blog post, TA.
(http://i.imgur.com/qUrIF.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on October 11, 2012, 02:08:50 PM
If you substitute "otherkin" for "furry" it doesn't really make Buge's post less accurate.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on October 11, 2012, 02:23:06 PM
... honestly I thought it was just a goofy comic playing with the absurdity of a masculine soldier in a sobering situation coming to terms with who he feels he really is, and not really a mean-spirited jab of any sort.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on October 11, 2012, 02:29:29 PM
this is what the downfall of roleplaying games has caused

now everyone thinks they need to BE something to ACT like that thing
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on October 11, 2012, 03:06:24 PM
Prevent Zara's bleak, bleak future, support buggy isometric single player RPGs:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity)

Speaking of Buge's post gaiz
Strong Bad Email: Japanese Cartoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqt5s_T1GE#)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on October 11, 2012, 03:37:07 PM
I mean actual roleplaying games where you pretend to be another person

not computer roleplaying games where you pretend to be a game piece with an axe
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on October 11, 2012, 04:08:15 PM
now everyone thinks they need to BE something to ACT like that thing
The real problem is everyone thinks they declare themselves something that's what they are, regardless of how they act.

Somewhere along the line getting whatever you want through hard work became being entitled to everything you want. Even if you clearly do not possess any of the required attributes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on October 11, 2012, 04:12:11 PM
Are you denying the validity of self-identification, Beat?  Telling a transwoman that just because she identifies as a woman, she's a dude?  Because that's exactly the same as Otherkin.

EXACTLY the same.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Lottel on October 11, 2012, 04:12:29 PM
Somewhere along the line "I like raccoons" became "I am a raccoon."
And that became "I am a raccoon and if you don't believe that,  you're persecuting me."
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 11, 2012, 04:26:56 PM
The main thing I took from Buge's post is that furries are a meme which will go away once their five minutes are up.

Er... wait.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on October 11, 2012, 04:50:51 PM
Raccoon In Name Only.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on October 11, 2012, 04:56:41 PM
Did you guys just become old and conservative enough to actually care about otherkin and other "signs of degradation" in our social fabric?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on October 11, 2012, 04:59:37 PM
Raccoon In Name Only.

no those are the ones with the big horns
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 11, 2012, 05:05:59 PM
Interestingly, Raccoons have a huge population in Toronto and have even been used as a city mascot by particularly cheeky companies.

Starr and I call them "City Counsellors". That's probably a bit insulting to the raccoon though.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on October 11, 2012, 05:08:12 PM
Did you guys just become old and conservative enough to actually care about otherkin and other "signs of degradation" in our social fabric?

I don't think anyone here is at all concerned that otherkin are "signs of degradation." Nor would any of us concern our time with the composure of the social fabric. For most of us, the fascination with otherkin lies along the lines of "Oh are you serious?"
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on October 11, 2012, 05:31:23 PM
Sorry.  I am maybe in a bad place and took some umbrage to this part of Beat Bandit's post:
Somewhere along the line getting whatever you want through hard work became being entitled to everything you want. Even if you clearly do not possess any of the required attributes.
That colored my reaction to the rest of the page.
I'ma maybe take myself a little break at least until this case of the runs dies down.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: on October 11, 2012, 05:43:40 PM
I really can't wait for the fallout a few years from now when these otherkin/otakukin/sjws try to get jobs and their employers pull this shit up and you can hear the laughter from across state lines

Also on Penny Arcade and furries: They did one strip on it back in 2002 (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/04/03) without realizing they existed as a thing. The commentary in the book says that the resulting deluge of hate mail made them decide to not do any more volumes of "Things we hate", but the end result is Tycho tried to talk to as many of these people as he could once they realized furries were "A thing", and quote, "Made several hundred friends in the span of a few hours, friends I still talk to today."
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on October 12, 2012, 06:52:05 AM
My original comment was in regards to the fact that trying to derive humour from furries/otherkin is long past its expiry date.

I can't believe I actually had to explain that.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ocksi on October 12, 2012, 07:23:24 AM
Did you?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on October 12, 2012, 08:07:50 AM
I didn't read it as making fun of these people. "What if there was a furry before the Internet, and what if there was a furry before it got trendy to make fun of furries?" The other guy's reaction is kind of touching, a sort of confusion that spawns acceptance, because here's a comrade in arms you're trusting with your life, and he's acting bizarre, but at the bottom of it it doesn't really matter because he's still got your back, so let him think he's a raccoon if that's what he wants.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on October 17, 2012, 04:50:02 AM
I expected good things from Broodhollow (http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/), Kris Straub's new comic (now that Starslip has ended), given that the author has described it as Hergé meets Lovecraft, but for the first few strips I wasn't entirely sure the art style would do the job. The dude can write some creepy stuff though (he did Candle Cove (http://www.ichorfalls.com/2009/03/15/candle-cove/) if you heard about that), so I wasn't too worried.

And then today... Welp, the art's there too. Makes sense that he needed to end one of his comics to start this one; visually this is a couple notches above pretty much anything he ever did. I'm really looking forward to where it goes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on October 17, 2012, 05:24:52 AM
well thank you.  Think I'll be following this one.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on October 18, 2012, 08:53:44 PM
Strangle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e60JlM6ZXHc#ws)

hee hee hee
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on October 30, 2012, 08:33:09 PM
Der-Shing Helmer has really delivered on the promise to resume updates on schedule. Hopefully this keeps up for the rest of the year at least!
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Healy on October 31, 2012, 07:40:26 PM
oh my god you guys, check out today's Unwinder Tall Comics (http://tallcomics.com/?id=119)
[spoiler]Remember to check out the title text.
Also I kind of wanna write a saved-fic now.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on November 19, 2012, 05:04:02 PM
If I have to read one more page of Jillian's intricate and harrowing back story I will take four shits and die.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on November 19, 2012, 08:17:38 PM
Man, I hear ya. Even after all this she's still by far the character I want to learn about the least. And since book 2 has started, Wanda's edging towards second place in that regard. There's not even any suspense, we know Faq's going to survive until Wanda can sell it out to Stanley.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on November 19, 2012, 09:13:25 PM
What are you guys talking about? Eerie Cuties?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on November 19, 2012, 10:04:38 PM
Erfworld (http://www.erfworld.com/). Which is alternating between slowly resolving two branches of the conflit we actually care about, and slowly filling in backstory for the two least interesting characters in text-only updates. There are legitimate real-life reasons for the overall pacing (the writer went into surgery and had complications, and the artist's mother died), and I guess it's still better than, say, no updates. But yeah, the backstory is getting tiresome, and it would be so even if it was illustrated.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 20, 2012, 10:31:38 AM
Oh hey Kinokofry (http://kinokofry.com/archive/jackanthe-beanstalk-01/) is back
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 20, 2012, 10:51:22 AM
Der-Shing Helmer has really delivered on the promise to resume updates on schedule. Hopefully this keeps up for the rest of the year at least!

Welp.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 22, 2012, 11:44:00 PM
I totally missed this one earlier:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc4czjCrOy1rnw5qjo1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: on November 23, 2012, 04:17:18 AM
I think CAD just ended.

False alarm, he's rebooting it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 11, 2012, 09:27:18 AM
http://www.alessonislearned.com/ (http://www.alessonislearned.com/)

This... now this is an interesting thing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 11, 2012, 10:54:46 AM
wow.  Six years is quite the hiatus.  Can't say I expected a return, but I'm happy to see more.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 15, 2012, 10:00:30 PM
Pancakes (http://katlay.tumblr.com/post/31426185271/the-mini-ive-been-working-on-for-a-couple-weeks) 

:kowhyee:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 16, 2012, 09:25:48 AM
Hey, I remember that.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on December 18, 2012, 03:13:00 PM
Heartwarming Hark! A Vagrant (http://harkavagrant.com/images/somethingnice.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 18, 2012, 09:56:32 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/a0B5d.gif)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 20, 2012, 04:34:10 PM
Hey, here's a pretty cool thing.  http://avasdemon.com/ (http://avasdemon.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on December 27, 2012, 09:27:00 PM
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/badmachine.png)

Man, I used to think hearing/reading people talk about music I've never heard was the most boring thing in the world, but leave it to John Allison (http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20121224) to make me giggle anyway.

edit: it's true

Julia Holter - Marienbad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukVgY8I_nA#ws)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 02, 2013, 04:37:53 PM
gunshow does it again

(http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20130102-mynewtrick.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 09, 2013, 03:41:28 PM
A very well done riff on a very old complaint.

(http://i.imgur.com/b91Xv.jpg)

Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 28, 2013, 06:53:10 PM
(http://forlackofabettercomic.com/img/comic/215.png)

(http://forlackofabettercomic.com/img/comic/177.png)

For Lack of a Better Comic (http://forlackofabettercomic.com/) is the king of hitting close to home.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on January 28, 2013, 08:25:16 PM
Welp, always figured I was damned anyways, what with the whole atheist nonsense, but apparenty everybody is fucked.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Smiler on January 29, 2013, 08:43:00 AM
Yeah Beat this comic was made for you.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 01, 2013, 07:48:46 AM
Dinosaur Comics  turns 10 today! (http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2364)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 04, 2013, 02:34:01 PM
Wizards School (http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1031)

Basically it's harry potter, only Harry Potter's been replaced by an asshole who can only think about hookers and blow. I thought it would be crap, but it manages to be decently funny.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 23, 2013, 12:36:01 AM
Today's Dr. McNinja (http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p92/) is amazing.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Smiler on March 24, 2013, 07:49:52 PM
Larp Trek (http://larptrek.com/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on March 24, 2013, 08:09:28 PM
this comic is fantastic
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on March 24, 2013, 09:21:39 PM
best comic 20xx
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on March 24, 2013, 11:10:15 PM
Every time there's a new DM of the Rings-alike the footnote text doubles in size.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on March 25, 2013, 07:43:52 AM
Quote from: LARP Trek blog
http://ensemblestudiotheatrela.tumblr.com/

Gates McFadden has a tumblr. On this she posts posed pictures of a 1/8 scale (give or take, but the rhyme is good) Dr. Beverly Crusher action figure grappling with post-Star Trek emotional baggage and the challenges of being a tiny action figure.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/2dbe54e02f81a5d3bf601b68c1961ee0/tumblr_mk6hr6tQxa1s4nhnmo3_1280.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/vt9lQFD.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 30, 2013, 08:35:04 PM
Oh wow how did I ever miss this one (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=347)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on March 30, 2013, 09:11:22 PM
Oh wow how did I ever miss this one (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=347)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's because you haven't looked at Kate Beaton's website in over two months. I say that because that particular comic, despite being the second to most recent one, is two months old.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 30, 2013, 09:23:15 PM
I usually check in at the blog rather than the website itself (because it used to be the case that the blog had material the website didn't), but she updates that even less frequently than the website now.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on March 31, 2013, 08:33:27 PM
So I guess the Oglaf database broke or something? Because now the previous/next buttons just take you to different pages at random.

EDIT: Maybe it's an April fools thing? Doesn't really seem like much of a trick.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 31, 2013, 08:42:41 PM
The whole site was down briefly a while ago, so I doubt it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on April 06, 2013, 03:42:08 PM
Is it housebot week in webcomics and nobody told me?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on April 26, 2013, 06:54:13 AM
On a scale of 1 to Hitler, how bad a person am I for getting to the end of today's Order of the Stick and immediately singing in my head "the party don't start 'till I walk in"?

In other news, [spoiler]thank fuck Xykon is back. It's not that the recent downer spiral has been poorly executed or anything, but after all the plots and schemes and betrayals, it's a breath of fresh air to get back to a villain whose modus operandi is "kill everyone, raise their corpses, have a good chuckle about it"[/spoiler].
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mothra on May 10, 2013, 03:53:52 AM
Hyperboleandahalf's Depression Comics Part 2 (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html) is really good. Worth a read.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on May 10, 2013, 04:17:34 AM
That certainly feels like depression...
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on May 10, 2013, 04:19:07 AM
Holy shit. I am legitimately surprised to learn she's back at this point.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on May 10, 2013, 09:33:06 AM
That page is practically a public service, given how useful it will be for a lot people who might otherwise have a really hard time explaining how they feel.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on May 10, 2013, 10:11:37 AM
The very fact that you phrased it that way illustrates how fucking difficult it is to talk about.

This is something that shouldn't be said often, but: Thank you, lady, for being depressed.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Esperath on May 14, 2013, 04:43:53 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/w3DZ6Jk.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on May 24, 2013, 03:30:39 AM
http://hobolobo.net/ (http://hobolobo.net/)

Possibly one of, if not the best, uses of the internet as a new medium for comics I've seen so far.

Unfortunately it looks like this is yet another case of "webcomic artist delivering updates at longer and longer intervals" and the lead time on this was much longer to begin with, but it's still worth a look, unresolved as it is. 
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on May 24, 2013, 07:15:46 AM
Nice. Reminds me of When I am king (http://www.demian5.com/index-e.php) in a way. (Which is ancient but some of you might not have seen it maybe? Be warned, it's a bit too much about dongs to be safe for work. And it takes a while to get clever. But it does! And it's not that long. And don't mess with the frames/window, it's that way for a reason.)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on June 04, 2013, 04:29:44 PM
My growing problem with Girl Genius is that we have to accept a world where practically everyone is carrying around at least three types of deadly poison but only two people seem to have figured out that "immunity to all poisons" might be a good trait to have.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on June 04, 2013, 04:47:26 PM
I feel like the premise of that series is, "What if Europe were ruled by crazy people who have the ability to create irresistible forces and immovable objects more-or-less at will." You're only immune to all poisons until someone decides they want to make a poison that defeats your immunity (and kills everyone else too).
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on June 12, 2013, 12:51:18 AM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ctrl-Alt-Del-Original-Art-6-2-2008-Comic-Loss-/261227418904?pt=Collectibles_Animation_Art&hash=item3cd25e1518 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ctrl-Alt-Del-Original-Art-6-2-2008-Comic-Loss-/261227418904?pt=Collectibles_Animation_Art&hash=item3cd25e1518)

oh

oh my
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on June 12, 2013, 01:49:26 AM
I guess if you're already a laughingstock, mise well make some monies?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on June 12, 2013, 03:09:55 AM
Quote
[12:14] <Aesir> Buckley's been getting more and more desperate lately
[12:15] <Aesir> he had a bunch of terrible sponsored comics as well
[12:16] <Aesir> my pet theory is that most of the people reading CAD and giving him ad revenue and such were from the mock thread
[12:16] <Aesir> and when that got closed, over half of his readership vanished into the aether
[12:18] <ScootWork> even the PA webcomics thread doesn't post cad, and they'll post jerkcity
[12:18] <Aesir> exactly
[12:19] <Aesir> hell, a few months ago there was that thing with Buckley's dog, where he needed a super expensive operation or something
[12:19] <Aesir> and he was really pushing people to buy prints of old comics
[12:19] <Aesir> needless to say, everyone in the mock thread tried to buy Loss
[12:20] <Aesir> and all of the requests were wordlessly canceled and refunded
[12:20] <ScootWork> did he Loss his dog
[12:21] <Aesir> it was a toy dog with a collapsed trachea
[12:21] <Aesir> you're supposed to walk them with harnesses instead of leashes to prevent that
[12:21] <Aesir> needless to say, every photo of Buckley with his dog showed him walking the dog with a leash
[12:22] <Aesir> so, yeah, he may have Loss'd his dog
[12:22] <Aesir> anyway point being, a few months ago he wouldn't even sell Loss prints to save the life of his dog
[12:24] <Aesir> so for him to backpedal this heavily, he must be having some Problems
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on June 12, 2013, 03:17:05 AM
Sounds more like he Strangle'd his dog.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on June 14, 2013, 01:48:30 AM
We have a thread for that, y'know.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on June 14, 2013, 01:52:48 AM
Oof. I searched for MSPA and posted on the first one that appeared and didn't even notice.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on July 08, 2013, 07:06:58 AM
So I guess John Campbell is eloH now.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on July 08, 2013, 08:09:22 AM
The best part is how that post is entirely devoid of context. A good post.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on July 08, 2013, 09:27:14 AM
Psh, context.

So John Campbell posted an update to his PFSC Kickstarter consisting of a comic about him taking dimethyltryptamine(DMT) and a bunch of rambling about how wrong it is that it's illegal in the West and how it's the culmination of all of his life experiences and thanking everyone who gave him money so he could go out and do psychedelic drugs.

Oh, and he actually posted a production update, in the comments, after someone pointed out that it has been a full year since the book was originally supposed to ship.

I would have posted a link to said update, but it's only viewable by people who gave him money so he could go out and do psychedelic drugs.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on July 08, 2013, 11:51:59 PM
see this is what happens when you give money to artists
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Sharkey on July 09, 2013, 07:30:46 AM
Dunno if this has been mentioned here, but Nimona (http://gingerhaze.com/nimona/comic/page-1) is just utterly charming. The protagonist also bears a striking resemblance to a former companion of mine, so I have a particular soft spot for it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on July 10, 2013, 05:37:51 AM
see this is what happens when you give money to artists

And now he's mailing wasps to Australia.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on August 02, 2013, 05:00:14 AM
French comic artist Boulet delivers one hell of a comic today. (http://english.bouletcorp.com/2013/08/02/the-long-journey/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on August 03, 2013, 04:51:45 PM
Checking for Tracy JB updates sure yielded something interesting.

(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/133/5/1/lackadaisy_sophistry_by_tracyjb-d655yzq.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on August 06, 2013, 02:30:12 AM
this is pretty good

http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/ (http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on August 09, 2013, 07:37:34 PM
New Achewood up. (http://www.achewood.com/)

 :pop:

Onstad's even continuing the storyline from more than a year ago, so maybe he's gonna finish it? Who knows. Also, there doesn't seem to be mention of an animated series anymore.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on August 09, 2013, 07:50:09 PM
New Achewood. New Exquisite Knorpse. I don't care what you say or who you thought you knew you were: today's a good day.

(I'm going to bed!)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on August 09, 2013, 08:07:46 PM
(http://www.intentionallyblank.net/images/lp-ff4gba/lp-ff4gba4160.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 27, 2013, 09:53:18 AM
Quote
Ava's Demon is on hiatus for the making of the book
and will return strong on January 2nd with two updates a week.

 :rage:
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 27, 2013, 10:46:13 AM
I agree with both that emoticon and your signature
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Niku on August 27, 2013, 04:11:45 PM
http://smbthecomic.com/ (http://smbthecomic.com/)

A webcomic sequel to the Super Mario Bros. live action movie by one of the writers of said movie?

Sure, why not?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: François on August 27, 2013, 06:46:09 PM
I don't even care if it's any good, the mere existence of it is enough to give me a completely unexplainable sense of joy.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on August 27, 2013, 10:39:25 PM
I've held for a long time that SMB was a great movie released at a wrong time.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 07, 2013, 02:06:29 AM
Found an awesome webcomic called Gaysome (http://gaysomecomic.tumblr.com/), today. It's slice-of-life stuff about gay men being gay with each other. It's awesome and is making me smile. Read it. Read it you assholes.

Fair warning, although no dicks are drawnThere are totally drawings of dicks, it's still pretty Not Work Safe. So bear that in mind.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 13, 2013, 04:13:22 AM
Great Gail Simone short story (http://imgur.com/gallery/nrzhG)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on September 27, 2013, 08:02:18 AM
Oh Gunshow.

(http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20130823.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on November 27, 2013, 09:58:19 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/VCuNfLV.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 01, 2013, 01:08:49 PM
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/334/8/5/how_to_talk_to_women_by_johnsu-d6w82th.png)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 01, 2013, 07:42:24 PM
MY LIFE CONSOLE SHIPPED WITHOUT A CONTROLLER PLEASE HELP
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on December 02, 2013, 02:45:57 AM
my life console uses the kinect

fuck everything
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Brentai on December 06, 2013, 01:54:44 PM
There is a reason it's always Chuck.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 08, 2013, 04:54:53 PM
Wow, epic length Oglaf today.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Classic on December 08, 2013, 10:27:39 PM
Is the no-link that you've provided extremely NSFW?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 08, 2013, 11:22:06 PM
As it's oglaf, 90% of the time the answer will be yes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: R^2 on December 09, 2013, 12:37:39 AM
Did you read last week's Oglaf? Because it's the sequel, and proceeds much along those same lines.

So yes, very much so.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2013, 06:07:15 AM
Yeah, I usually read it every week. Just, since he normally only does one or two pages, this made for quite a noticeable change.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: TA on December 09, 2013, 06:30:31 AM
She.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 09, 2013, 08:03:50 AM
Huh.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Bongo Bill on December 10, 2013, 08:36:53 PM
I thought it was a team?
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on December 10, 2013, 10:39:07 PM
Yeah, I think the artist is female, but both of them write it.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on December 23, 2013, 08:45:46 AM
http://citycyclops.com/7.31.13.php (http://citycyclops.com/7.31.13.php)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 05, 2014, 01:54:42 AM
Things could have been so much better (http://twistedspeedo.com/?p=1048)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Zaratustra on January 05, 2014, 03:05:29 AM
Reading back on this dude's archives it seems like some sort of cross breed between webcomic artist and political cartoonist

http://twistedspeedo.com/?p=1004 (http://twistedspeedo.com/?p=1004)

wtf
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Royal☭ on January 05, 2014, 03:32:46 AM
WTF is a good description of that comic. The fuck? (http://twistedspeedo.com/?p=998)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Büge on January 05, 2014, 06:17:30 AM
Ugly art and ugly jokes.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 05, 2014, 10:08:59 AM
Not going to lie, the Cookie Monster comic is about as far back as I read.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Mongrel on January 08, 2014, 04:17:49 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/wl8WviT.jpg)
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 11, 2014, 12:21:33 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/P5rfzmQ.jpg)

Dakota McFadzean (http://blog.dakotamcfadzean.com/) makes some pretty great comics.
Title: Re: Webcomics that aren't MSPA
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 16, 2014, 10:17:59 PM
Shortpacked! turns nine today! And also it has one year left. (http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/73591298741/why-shortpacked-is-ending)