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My Favorite Web Comics
Sep. 29th, 2004 09:00 pmI've been meaning to post this for a while, it looks like tonight's the night. And I'm going to double-post it over to Xanga as I have readers there who don't come over here. And if anyone has a link to the new Opus cartoon series, I'd really appreciate it.
Dilbert The quintessential comic chronicling the life of a cubical drone. I don’t think much needs to be said about Dilbert, except you might find it well worth your time to find the archives of the Dogbert New Ruling Class newsletters.
Kevin & Kell Bill Holbrook is a very talented man and somehow finds the time to do not one but three comics. This one is a furry about Kevin, a rabbit, and Kell, his wife who is a wolf. Their world has strong demarcations between predators and prey which Kevin & Kell simply ignored.
Safe Haven Yet another Holbrook comic, this one about a group of teenagers growing up together. This one is nationally syndicated in print.
On the Fast Track The third Holbrook comic, also syndicated, sort of his take on Dilbert. Not as techie, but you see aspects of private lives that Scott Adams would never show. This and Safe Haven have occasional crossovers.
Sluggy Freelance Sluggy! Great stuff, currently in a very extended story arc about demons going after Torg, one of the main characters, and failing miserably. Far too complicated to try to explain. Also features one strip a week by Ian McDonald of Bruno the Bandit fame.
User Friendly The story of Columbia Internet, an ISP in Canada run by geeks, despot wannabe’s, Cthulhu, a sentient Macintosh. The Sunday comics are normally a comment on current events, and every day features one or more Links of the Day that lead to some interesting places.
Knights of the Dinner Table (M-Fish) A daily from Kenzer Co., the publishers of Hackmaster, the joke that became a game. This is older stuff, but still amusing. They make little attempt to maintain a daily posting schedule, but they do tell complete stories. Commonly referred to as KoDT.
Dork Tower Can’t have KoDT without a generous helping of Dork Tower. Whereas KoDT is generally short series of comics, Dork Tower is more one-shot oriented. Both are hugely funny, it just depends on what kind of a gaming comic fix that you need.
Turn Signals on a Land Raider If you’re a gamer, regardless of whether you like Games Workshops 40k series, you’ll probably get a kick out of this comic. It bases around a crack army, The Emperor’s Pointy Sticks, and their tribulations in various battles that they fight. They know they are miniatures used for gaming, but that doesn’t prevent them from having a life. The artist doesn’t seem to follow a fixed release schedule, so check often.
Red vs Blue Technically this is not a comic but rather an animated cartoon. What these guys do is pretty amazing: they have a gaming LAN set up for them to play HALO, a very good first-person shooter from Microsoft that they script, act out as their characters, then redub and post it on the web. Very funny, highly recommended. When they are in production, they typically produce an episode a week. They’re just gearing up to start the third season. These episodes are available collected on DVD, something that I think will end up on my birthday/Christmas list.
Larry Leadhead Another gamer comic, this one largely from the perspective of a lead miniatures gamer. Great stuff, slow schedule for new comics.
MegaTokyo (MWFish) Megatokyo is an interesting take on two American fanboys stuck in Tokyo, the nebbish/artist speaks some Japanese and gets a job at a manga store while giving drawing lessons on the side, the techie becomes obsessed with fighting evil, as in 3v1l L33t. Typically a Monday/Wednesday/Friday comic, but prone to occasional slippage.
Bruno the Bandit (MWF) Bruno the Bandit, the adventures of He Who Would Be A Master Thief, but who just can’t get it right consistently. It’s a fantasy setting, but that doesn’t prevent them from pulling in anachronisms such as TVs with remote controls. Drawn by Ian McDonald who does a weekly strip for Sluggy Freelance.
Overdue Media You wouldn’t think that the subject of working in a library would be funny, but this strip is GREAT! I can just picture the main character sounding like Randall from Clerks. Definitely recommended.
Over the Hedge Another anthropomorphic about formerly wild animals adapting to suberbia. Very wry, and the basis for a soon-to-be major movie.
Shayla the Pink Mouse DEFINITE ADULT CONTENT. An anthropomorphic comic about the adventures of a female pink mouse with heavy sexual content. Pretty funny stuff, but it’s a one-a-weeker, I believe he updates on Sunday. Very small archive as he hasn’t been doing it for very long.
Freefall (MWF) An amusing anthropomorphic science fiction strip that Magic Rat turned me on to. Very amusing.
Bruno (not The Bandit, M-Th) I found Bruno (this one not to be confused with Bruno the Bandit, totally different comics) from a link on Freefall. I quite like it, it’s heavy in X-Generation angst and life issues, still I quite like it. He does an interesting job on the archive in that each week is collected onto a single page, he also does irregular layouts depending on what the strip of the day is about.
Crap I drew on my lunch break Typically a single panel comic that is updated at very infrequent intervals. Interesting stuff.
Girly This is something new that I just started following, extremely influenced by manga. Features adult content, so consider yourself warned. I’m currently working through the archive of his previous strip, Cute Wendy, of which this is sort of a continuation. I found this one from a link from Jin Wicked’s Crap/Lunch Break site.
MSNBC Comics MSNBC has, IMO, a great collection of comics: Doonesbury, Foxtrot, Boondocks, etc. I don’t read all of them, but I like what I read. They have four good political cartoonists, this is also a good source for News of the Weird which is updated weekly.
This Modern World A political cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, quite amusing, at least to me.
Derf City More sarcastic political cartooning, just the kind I like.
Bite Me! A curious comic about vampires in revolutionary France. Unfortunately the series just ended and you have to buy a subscription to look at the archives. Once I get a steady cash flow going I plan on buying a one month membership to go through the archives and get caught up: I was a faithful follower but then went a couple of years without seeing it, then when I found it again, it was three episodes before it ended. Sigh.
Dilbert The quintessential comic chronicling the life of a cubical drone. I don’t think much needs to be said about Dilbert, except you might find it well worth your time to find the archives of the Dogbert New Ruling Class newsletters.
Kevin & Kell Bill Holbrook is a very talented man and somehow finds the time to do not one but three comics. This one is a furry about Kevin, a rabbit, and Kell, his wife who is a wolf. Their world has strong demarcations between predators and prey which Kevin & Kell simply ignored.
Safe Haven Yet another Holbrook comic, this one about a group of teenagers growing up together. This one is nationally syndicated in print.
On the Fast Track The third Holbrook comic, also syndicated, sort of his take on Dilbert. Not as techie, but you see aspects of private lives that Scott Adams would never show. This and Safe Haven have occasional crossovers.
Sluggy Freelance Sluggy! Great stuff, currently in a very extended story arc about demons going after Torg, one of the main characters, and failing miserably. Far too complicated to try to explain. Also features one strip a week by Ian McDonald of Bruno the Bandit fame.
User Friendly The story of Columbia Internet, an ISP in Canada run by geeks, despot wannabe’s, Cthulhu, a sentient Macintosh. The Sunday comics are normally a comment on current events, and every day features one or more Links of the Day that lead to some interesting places.
Knights of the Dinner Table (M-Fish) A daily from Kenzer Co., the publishers of Hackmaster, the joke that became a game. This is older stuff, but still amusing. They make little attempt to maintain a daily posting schedule, but they do tell complete stories. Commonly referred to as KoDT.
Dork Tower Can’t have KoDT without a generous helping of Dork Tower. Whereas KoDT is generally short series of comics, Dork Tower is more one-shot oriented. Both are hugely funny, it just depends on what kind of a gaming comic fix that you need.
Turn Signals on a Land Raider If you’re a gamer, regardless of whether you like Games Workshops 40k series, you’ll probably get a kick out of this comic. It bases around a crack army, The Emperor’s Pointy Sticks, and their tribulations in various battles that they fight. They know they are miniatures used for gaming, but that doesn’t prevent them from having a life. The artist doesn’t seem to follow a fixed release schedule, so check often.
Red vs Blue Technically this is not a comic but rather an animated cartoon. What these guys do is pretty amazing: they have a gaming LAN set up for them to play HALO, a very good first-person shooter from Microsoft that they script, act out as their characters, then redub and post it on the web. Very funny, highly recommended. When they are in production, they typically produce an episode a week. They’re just gearing up to start the third season. These episodes are available collected on DVD, something that I think will end up on my birthday/Christmas list.
Larry Leadhead Another gamer comic, this one largely from the perspective of a lead miniatures gamer. Great stuff, slow schedule for new comics.
MegaTokyo (MWFish) Megatokyo is an interesting take on two American fanboys stuck in Tokyo, the nebbish/artist speaks some Japanese and gets a job at a manga store while giving drawing lessons on the side, the techie becomes obsessed with fighting evil, as in 3v1l L33t. Typically a Monday/Wednesday/Friday comic, but prone to occasional slippage.
Bruno the Bandit (MWF) Bruno the Bandit, the adventures of He Who Would Be A Master Thief, but who just can’t get it right consistently. It’s a fantasy setting, but that doesn’t prevent them from pulling in anachronisms such as TVs with remote controls. Drawn by Ian McDonald who does a weekly strip for Sluggy Freelance.
Overdue Media You wouldn’t think that the subject of working in a library would be funny, but this strip is GREAT! I can just picture the main character sounding like Randall from Clerks. Definitely recommended.
Over the Hedge Another anthropomorphic about formerly wild animals adapting to suberbia. Very wry, and the basis for a soon-to-be major movie.
Shayla the Pink Mouse DEFINITE ADULT CONTENT. An anthropomorphic comic about the adventures of a female pink mouse with heavy sexual content. Pretty funny stuff, but it’s a one-a-weeker, I believe he updates on Sunday. Very small archive as he hasn’t been doing it for very long.
Freefall (MWF) An amusing anthropomorphic science fiction strip that Magic Rat turned me on to. Very amusing.
Bruno (not The Bandit, M-Th) I found Bruno (this one not to be confused with Bruno the Bandit, totally different comics) from a link on Freefall. I quite like it, it’s heavy in X-Generation angst and life issues, still I quite like it. He does an interesting job on the archive in that each week is collected onto a single page, he also does irregular layouts depending on what the strip of the day is about.
Crap I drew on my lunch break Typically a single panel comic that is updated at very infrequent intervals. Interesting stuff.
Girly This is something new that I just started following, extremely influenced by manga. Features adult content, so consider yourself warned. I’m currently working through the archive of his previous strip, Cute Wendy, of which this is sort of a continuation. I found this one from a link from Jin Wicked’s Crap/Lunch Break site.
MSNBC Comics MSNBC has, IMO, a great collection of comics: Doonesbury, Foxtrot, Boondocks, etc. I don’t read all of them, but I like what I read. They have four good political cartoonists, this is also a good source for News of the Weird which is updated weekly.
This Modern World A political cartoon by Tom Tomorrow, quite amusing, at least to me.
Derf City More sarcastic political cartooning, just the kind I like.
Bite Me! A curious comic about vampires in revolutionary France. Unfortunately the series just ended and you have to buy a subscription to look at the archives. Once I get a steady cash flow going I plan on buying a one month membership to go through the archives and get caught up: I was a faithful follower but then went a couple of years without seeing it, then when I found it again, it was three episodes before it ended. Sigh.
