Question My type of comic

I know we all have our favorites, and varied, so I was wondering if any can share links to a few.

I just found this and I think its becoming a quick favorite.

Two Guys and Guy

Be aware NFW

Yeah, that's a good one. The artist has also been involved with League of Super Redundant Heroes , which fans of superhero parodies will enjoy.

I read a lot of webcomics, around 60-80 of them. Here are my top 13 favorites, more or less in descending order (and spanning multiple posts due to (sensible!) anti-spam constraints):

Gunnerkrigg Court -- Kind of like if Hogwarts was all about technology, but still located in a highly magical area full of fantastic beasts. Perhaps a more magical area. This is my favorite comic of all time. It's really damn good. Except for Boxbot, who is terrible.

El Goonish Shive -- Starts off odd, gets awkward, stays awkward, grows adorable. It's essentially about kids with powers.

Homestuck -- Jumanji meets The Sims, with a bit of second-person flavor. Do not let the crude art and retarded tone of the comic fool you. This thing is amazing. Also, it is now essentially a finished work. There will be an epilogue added sometime in the indefinite future, but the story is complete.

Supernormal Step -- Girl gets sucked into a strange world where superpowers are extremely common and goes on a quest to get home. It starts good and only gets better from there.

Guilded Age -- Starts like a parody of MMORPGs, but that's just the surface. I can't tell you anything else without spoiling things. It's very good though.

Grrl Power -- Superpowers have existed for a while, but they're not common. The government is just starting to set up a superpowered police force of sorts, which is the main focus of the story so far.

Blindsprings -- Fantasy story about a girl who got stuck in a magic part of the woods for a few hundred years, during which time her country was taken over by practitioners of a different brand of magic from her own.

Sleepless Domain -- This one hasn't been running long, but it seems to be set in a city that gets attacked by monsters every night. The city's response? Build a school to train teams of magical girls to go out every evening and clean things up.

Kiki Blitz -- In a world where people battle in truck-sized robots for sport, the daughter of a rich industrialist takes her mech to the streets to fight crime. This isn't actually a mecha-heavy story though, beyond the first chunk. More of a general near-future-tech story. Lots of fun.

Miamaska -- A teenage girl somehow gets trapped in what may be a parallel universe; whatever the case, technology is several hundred years behind, and they're very much afraid of outsiders like herself.

Goblins -- Lots of RPGs have goblins as mooks. This story is what happens when the goblins decide they've had enough of that and become adventurers. The story gets pretty dark and gore-tacular at times, so if you've got issues with that kind of thing, be aware.

Breaking Cat News -- In a world where cats are newscasters, kitties remain adorable.

Metacarpolis -- This story follows Max, a freshly laid off member of Doom Corps, as he tries to find his place in the world. Also meet Emiko, former magical girl turned housecleaner.

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Honorable mentions go to Erma , Lighter than Heir , Manly Guys Doing Manly Things , and Magical Girl Neil .

I'm going to stop now before I get even more carried away.

Let's see... I follow a bunch, but here are my favorites, of those that haven't been mentioned yet:

Girl Genius - What if Devisors ruled the world? (Answer: It wouldn't be so good for the world)

Schlock Mercenary - Space Opera comedy about a mercenary company. Titular character is an alien who looks like a large pile of excrement. Has updated every day (that includes the day their server exploded) for the past 15 years, but most of that time is segmented into complete books, and you can easily skip the earlier books and lower quality art.

Unsounded - Otherworld fantasy about a girl brat and her zombie.

Wilde Life - An author named Oscar Wilde (no, not that one) moves to Podunk, Oklahoma. It's a totally ordinary town, his landlady, Barbara Yaga, is a totally normal old lady, and his housemate Sylvia is a totally normal ghost. Also, the comments tend to overflow with puns.

Not a Villain - The girl who caused the apocalypse joins a virtual reality MMORPG to prove that she can be a hero. But she's ever so slightly competitive...


Huh. My top picks are spread about as far as possible in the SF/F genre spectrum: Steampunk, Space Opera, Otherworld Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, and Post-apocalyptic slightly future science fiction.

Honorable mentions go to the stories that would be at the top of my list, except that they only update once a week. (And other than Fey WInds, they are all pretty new). Posted seperately, because the forum was complaining about how many links I had.

Everblue - a boy, a girl, a world of water, and a flying ship.
The Monster Under the Bed - Boy meets girl, they become friends and eventually fall in love. Girl happens to be the monster that lives under his bed. NSFW
Replay - Proof that characters can be adorable even when covered in blood, guts, and demon gore.
Fey Winds - I can not come up with a description that does this comic justice. Just read the first 10 pages and you'll get it. The art improves, though.
Shattered Starlight - Same author as Fey Winds. The Incredibles, if Mr. Incredible was a Magical Girl.

I'm a NAV fan as well. Perhaps it should be better phrase as "the girl who everything believes caused the apocalpyse..." given she's credited with reversing the Earth's magnetic field.

Anyway, onto other comics...

Skin Horse - Black Ops Social Services, catering to non-human sapients. The team originally consisted of Dr. Dennis "Tip" Wilkin, a pscyhologist who's also a 24/7 crossdresser; UNITY, who's a combination of patchwork doll, frankentein's monster, zombie and teenage girl; Sweetheart, a Canadian talking dog who's obsessed with bureaucracy and idea of rampage is knocking over a can on a patch of grass; Moustachio, the static robot receptionist and Gavotte, the team leader who's a literal hive mind (a swarm of bees). They've since been joined by Nick (literal brain-in-a-jar whose body is a V-22 Osprey), Bubbles (formerly the AI running the office water cooler, now inhabiting a drone body, vocabulary restricted to the words Service, Is, My, Only, Joy [with very occasional use of Not]), Hitty (female robot, love interest of Moustachio, and now his form of locomotion since his head often travels around attached to her back) and Virginia Lee (allegedly sane scientist responsible for creating half the rest of the cast).

Dangerously Chloe - part of the Eerie Cuties / Magick Chicks universe. A teenage lad wandering through a museum at night accidentally wakes up a demon. Panicked (especially with the demon's bellowing voice), he blurts out he'd like a girlfriend. Cue the arrival of Chloe Love, Succubus-in-training. They're quite fond of each other and like each other's company, but if she goes without "intimate relations", she may expire, but conversely if she fulfils her contract, she may kill him as well as condemning him to hell. There's a get-out clause: if he can find another girlfriend. But (a) her plans often backfire, (b) if the contract's ended, she'll be recalled to Taraturus Academy and have to leave him. The cast also includes his younger sister, who alternates between Adorkable and Too Dumb To Live, Pandora, a succubus classmate of Chloe who's moved in, presumably because she finds causing chaos (and sneaking into heaven to have a fling with an angel) more entertaining than school, a trio of angels, and Naomi, a cheerleader from the protagonist's school who's seen some of the unusual goings on and attributes them to aliens as there's no such thing as angels or demons (oops).

Flipside - it's rather complicated to describe, especially as we've now got three alternating story arcs: Maytag vs The Thin Man, Bernadette vs The Colosseum, Crest vs Suspira - but here's the author's synopsis:

This is a webcomic about two women: Maytag and Bernadette. Maytag is a fun loving, free spirited jester girl. Bernadette is a dignified, knightly swordswoman. Their adventures take place in a fantasy world, and magic is their technology.

That's the story description. As for what it's actually about: I was tired of fantasy stories where the conflict was all very basic, good vs evil. I wanted to do a more character focused story. Flipside is mostly about the relationship between the two protagonists, and relationships in general. It's also about conflicts that are not necessarily black and white, and this is where the title comes from. Maytag is a character who seems to be as black and white as her costume, at first, but upon closer examination there are many shades of gray.

(More in the next post - "too many links"!)

Spinnerette - affectionate parody of superhero comics, student Heather Brown has an accident involving spiders and a genetic manipulator, ends up growing two extra pairs of arms and the ability to spin webs... from her posterior. She's now Columbus, Ohio's latest superhero, alongside Mecha Maid (fellow student Marilyn Seong, who has ALS and uses her technology to help her lead as normal a life as possible - well, except for her armour suit and superheroing) and Tiger (police officer by day). The primary villain is a scientist inspired by Ayn Rand, isn't your standard "take over the world" or "cause unwanted death and destruction" type, and his lab assistant / co-conspirator is buxom Brazilian German Greta Gravity. They're sometimes assisted by the League of Canadian Superheroes - Katt (O Nine Tails), London (Werewolf) and Gabe (male descendant of the Anne of Green Gables lineage, ended up with the legacy and costume), who's mode of travel is an Avrocar (about as realiable as you'd expect).

Sandra and Woo - ostensibly the adventures of a girl (Sandra) and her pet (talking) raccoon (Woo). Plus her pyromaniac best friend Larissa, her boyfriend Cloud (and his family: Ye Thuza, a former Burmese rebel, David, her husband, and Yuna, younger sister who really takes after her mother and possibly is even a proto-mad scientist), Woo's racoon girlfriend Lily (and later on, their cubs, which she has primary custody over), a bunch of forest creatures, oh, and even occasional appearances by Seeoahtlahmakaskay (raccoon goddess).

Gaia - from the creators of Sandra and Woo, a fantasy story with a difference. Framed for a massacre taking place on her graduation day, Lilith's friends approach the mysterious Shadowdancers to break her out of jail. It later transpires that the leader of the Shadowdancers, Viviana, narrowly escaped the regime murdering her journalist parents as they had damning evidence of their takeover of the formerly independent province of Illeasaar. Meanwhile, it seems events are being manipulated by the mysterious Eldor, an elf with control of both bluestream magic (considered good, associated with Gaia herself) and redstream (considered evil, associated with Bhaal).

Too Much Information - long-running 3D modelled webcomic, described as "A comic about an old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a tall lesbian, and several ghosts - with guardian angels, personal demons and not-so-alien aliens featuring in later storylines." Note: some comics are mildly NSFW, the vote incentives are strongly NSFW (Andy likes 'undressing' the characters...).

So many good comics. I'll add a few of my favorites that were not mentioned.

freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00001.htm

A story set on a world that is in the process of being teraformed, and how the population copes with the fact that their robot workforce, that outnumbers them by thousands to one is becoming sentient. Oh, and their is an a single alien from a primitive culture that snuck onboard an exploration spaceship, and his new, purloined, engineer, a genetically engineered humanoid wolf who the story really centers around.

Then there is housepets.

www.housepetscomic.com/2008/06/02/when-boredom-strikes/

This is a bit strange. The pets aren't just animals that can talk to each other, they are very anthro and seem to be fully intelligent and their status in society seems to about the same as minor children.

Grape and Peanut are adorable.

Two years ago I could have given over twenty or thirty web comics sorted by genre and updating schedule. Alas I've purged most of them because of lack of time and several changes, often sudden and unexpected changes, in computers.
So my contribution.
www.smbc-comics.com A gag comic that is updated practically everyday and has been around for years, with jokes ranging from bizarre non sequiturs, math jokes, physics jokes, religious jokes, sex jokes, graph jokes, philosophy and just plain bizarre. The earlier comics tend the be poorer, but still funny.

Oh, I almost forgot - Pepper & Carrot , a webcomic about a cute witch and her cat. It doesn't update very frequently, but each update is a complete mini-story of its own, so the infrequent updates aren't a problem. There are 16 stories currently, and while the punch lines are often a bit predictable, they're still really cute, and the art is amazing.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Oh, I almost forgot - Pepper & Carrot , a webcomic about a cute witch and her cat. It doesn't update very frequently, but each update is a complete mini-story of its own, so the infrequent updates aren't a problem. There are 16 stories currently, and while the punch lines are often a bit predictable, they're still really cute, and the art is amazing.

Wow! I opened the page and looked at the picture for episode 16 and immediately thought of Studio Ghibli