Which webcomics do you read?

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Just wondering, since there are probably some really good ones out there that i don't know about.

Personally, i read Dilbert, Perry Bible Fellowship (no updates for ages :() and Dinosaur Comics.

How about you?
 
Every now and again I latch on to an old/long-running webcomic and read all the back-issues. Then my brain melts from all the comics and it takes me a while to recover and read a new one.
 
Nothing Nice to Say

http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/

and I really enjoy the short comic strip poems that Tom Neely does, but he hasn't done one in a while. There's only like 13 of them and they're spead across his blog over the last two years. (iwilldestroyyounews.blogspot.com
 
riomhaire said:
Every now and again I latch on to an old/long-running webcomic and read all the back-issues. Then my brain melts from all the comics and it takes me a while to recover and read a new one.
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That's basically what i do.

It's taken me about a month to get through all of Dilbert.
 
Gordon-Shepherd said:
Oh? I hunger for information. Tell me more.
In a PM, if you don't want the thread to be derailed.
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It's not inside info or anything. It's just that he has these comics about his (ex?) girlfriend that are rather creepy and pathetic when you look into them. He's professed his love for this "Megan" character in several comics, even though she's not with him and those comics are spread over a long period of time, making him appear as a creepy stalker who can't let go but uses his webcomic to profess his love to this Megan. However, in other comics this Megan is with him (but not mentioned by name), giving these comics the appearance that they are in a fantasy universe where she is with him, whereas in reality she isn't, as displayed in the "professing love" kind of comics. It might be far removed from the truth and Megan might just be a fictional character, but SA pointed this out to me and what you see you can't unsee.

The comics are like this:
http://xkcd.com/420/
 
PvtRyan said:
It's not inside info or anything. It's just that he has these comics about his (ex?) girlfriend that are rather creepy and pathetic when you look into them. He's professed his love for this "Megan" character in several comics, even though she's not with him and those comics are spread over a long period of time, making him appear as a creepy stalker who can't let go but uses his webcomic to profess his love to this Megan. However, in other comics this Megan is with him (but not mentioned by name), giving these comics the appearance that they are in a fantasy universe where she is with him, whereas in reality she isn't, as displayed in the "professing love" kind of comics. It might be far removed from the truth and Megan might just be a fictional character, but SA pointed this out to me and what you see you can't unsee.

The comics are like this:
http://xkcd.com/420/
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This is pretty stupid, since that comic you linked to is obviously playing off the idea that he's giving her a creepy toast at her own wedding. All of the other comics involving romance always plays off a nerdy pun or something similarly geeky. The author is actually a software engineer and has a degree in physics. Any past references to women in his life are just natural material for him to grab on- it is part of xkcd's genre groups- Romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

It has also come to my attention that he's attended several "xkcd meetups" where a bunch of forum goers travel around the country and meet at specific places for a few days to hang out with each other. The comic has long since grown weary to read, but the author is not "creepy" or stalkerish.
 
The guy who writes XKCD lives relatively near me. I want to buy him a beer.

I read:

A Softer World
XKCD
Least I Could Do
Penny Arcade
Dilbert
Dueling Analogs

Nitre said:
Perry Bible Fellowship (no updates for ages :()
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He stopped working on it, much to my dismay.
 
I use to read QC over the summer about two years ago and I was literally staying up for hours at a time reading issues 1 to something ridiculous. I never did finish that comic and there is no way in hell I'm going to even attempt to find where I left off.

It was a great comic, though.
 
None.

Just editions people link me to, no more.
 
For a while I didn't really bother reading webcomics.

Occasionally I had encountered something I liked, and read it all through in one night, but then I would never bother to keep up with it. Partly it was the necessity of checking regularly but mostly it was because the stuff I was reading, usually, just wasn't that good.

And then at some point I made the conscious decision to start finding good webcomics. I think it was a thread just like this one. The first post recommended A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible, which I was a great fan of. Along with that it offered Rice-Boy, which looked intriguing enough for me to examine. And it struck me that maybe there were a bunch of webcomics out there that were worth keeping up with. And so, following the 'links' pages from those few comics I remembered to go and look at, I began building. I began building a list of comics that I would check regularly, a list that I could consult with the confidence I would find something fun, a list that wouldn't look like a random selection from Your Webcomic Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad.

As it happened I ended up diluting it. There are comics on there that are not very good and I enjoy them anyway. There are also comics of which I have serious criticisms but put up with the issues. And there are comics in which I see promise and I'm just occasionally watching to see if they get better (there are even a few comics I haven't read any of yet, but which looked cool). But generally, there are good comics which are worth reading. For those that aren't, I make no apologies. There is no accounting for taste and anyone who's surveyed the links pages of their favourite authors and gone "WHAT YOUR ARE JOKING" will know this. And I am committed to posting the whole damn thing.

Therefore,
COMMENCE

Kate Beaton
A Softer World
Dinosaur Comics
Lego Robot
Joe Loves Crappy Movies
The Adventures of Doctor McNinja
YU+ME: Dream
Octopus Pie
Gunnerkrig Court
The Abominable Charles Christopher
Overcompensating
Truck Bearing Kibble
KC Green
Pictures For Sad Children
Achewood
Scary Go Round
Pug Davis
Shi Long Pang
Afterstrife
Letters To A Wild Boar
Lackadaisy
Penny Arcade
Girl Genius
Edwitch
Maakies
Alpha Shade
Journey To Mount Moriah
A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible
White Ninja
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Loyalty And Liberty
Explosm
Kiwis By Beat!
Rice Boy
Kukuburi
What Birds Know
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
Lucid TV
Perry Bible Fellowship
Concerned
xkcd
Married To The Sea
ACTION COMICS
Freakangels
Terror Island
Pictures of You

Damn. It's not even as long as it looks in my bookmarks folder.
 
Just XKCD.

User was banned for this post - sulkdodds
 
Ctrl-Alt-Del
The Zombie Hunters
Cyanide and Happiness
Buttersafe
Sexy losers (until I found out it ended ;()
As well as the ones on RvB
 
PvtRyan said:
SBMC, The Abominable Charles Christopher, xkcd (but it's sort of ruined after SomethingAwful pointed out the author is a creep).
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Well yeah, but who hasn't had shit uncovered about them by SA? They're the ****ing unsleeping android badger-moles of dirt digging. And anyway, the Megan shit is pretty tame by their standards, since it was just derived from something he already published, instead of being excavated from the fathomless depths of the internet.

Kyorisu said:
MegaTokyo
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Kyorisu said:
http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php
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No offense, but are you trying to come across as a portrait of a hopeless weeaboo? I really get that impression sometimes (at least Veggie plays it up a little :P).

My own webcomics folder (at least the ones Sulk didn't already post :hmph:):

Awkward Zombie
Castle Vidcons
Dead Winter*
Eegra
Super Mega
Dreamland Chronicles
Wayfarer's Moon*

The ones marked with an asterix I haven't actually gotten around to reading yet, I just found them someplace I thought they looked interesting, so they could very well be rubbish. :>
 
Well yeah, there's always a bigger Otaku. And I wasn't saying you were hopeless, you just seem to want to come across that way sometimes... maybe I am reading into it too much. Personally I couldn't really give a toss either way, but...

Megatokyo? Really?
 
Ok, it's now 7:30 am and i've read all the Questionable Content comics. I don't know if this is a good or bad way to have spent my first night of not sleeping.

My eyes hurt.
 
Poor Vegeta. Not a single person has said Isotown.
 
Nitre said:
Ok, it's now 7:30 am and i've read all the Questionable Content comics. I don't know if this is a good or bad way to have spent my first night of not sleeping.

My eyes hurt.
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I've tried to sit down and read through QC like 5 times now, every time I'm just completely put off by the art in the earlier strips. Also how silly and directionless it seems (o hay welcome to webcomics).

Kyorisu said:
It used to be good.
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Before the creepy self-insertion dating sim/stalker stuff? Sure. It was okay when it could still loosely be called a gaming strip, because at least it could get away with being a bit nerdy, instead of... whatever it is now.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Before the creepy self-insertion dating sim/stalker stuff?
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Well yes it was good then. Now it either drones on about nothing or occasional makes me piss myself laughing (I find eroge games funny so my sense of humour is rather warped). It's enough to keep me checking up on it every now and then.
 
http://www.hlcomic.com/archive/

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Regular:
Penny Arcade (Though nine times of ten, I've no idea what they're prattling about).

Occasional:
Garfield without Garfield (As amusing as it is, it has started to be repetitive beyond clever commentary on actual Garfield...)

Wut?
Concerned: (A really good comic that knew its limitations, unlike so many webcomics).
Megatokyo (Read about half of the 1000+ pages. That it's a faggy Manga story didn't make me stop: it's just not a particularly good one.)
Unicorn Jelly (This finished ages ago)

Oh god what was I thinking:
8-Bit Theatre
Ctrl+Alt+Del+Miscarriage.
Little Gamers
Real Life
VG Cats
 
At the moment I'm reading the entire archive of Nuklear Power. My brain is bleeding from the overload of swordchucks.
 
XKCD
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Penny Arcade
 
Sulkdodds said:
Kate Beaton
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Hurrah! I remember when you posted some of these in the Image Dump (or somewhere?) and I loved them. Then I forgot about them, and I was actually going to PM you a few weeks back about them, but then I forgot.

...

Hurrah!

Also, I use to quite enjoy Gone with the Blastwave which I just remembered about. I stopped when the guy didn't update for like, months, but I just today went back to it and it's artistically much better, not that it was bad before. He's been making progress, I see.

/settles in for a night of internets

EDIT: On closer inspection, there's been like two more strips since I last checked about a year ago. Nevermind. :(
 
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