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post #1 of 69
8/16/07 at 10:25am
Thread Starter 
I'm not sure if there are many other posters who are frequent webcomic fans, but I thought a centralized thread where people could share some of their favourite pages would be a worthwhile addition. If there's already another thread and someone can provide the link, I apologize in advance since the search function failed me in this regard.

I personally have a pretty wide range of sites that I check regularly, but two of my favourites are:

Dr. McNinja - a series of comics that concern a Ninja Doctor and his sidekick Gordito as they battle things like rival pirates, mexican bandits, and zombies. It's pretty absurd but the art is a lot of fun for what is essentially a free book.

http://www.drmcninja.com/

Lucid TV - Your garden variety humour strip, not all that different from a lot of other online comics except it revolves around asshole doctors. Much like McNinja it has a pretty clear absurdist bent with things such as emergency owlectomies. The detailed (for a basic strip) art nicely contrasts against the childish nature of a lot of the doctors.
http://www.lucid-tv.com/

Some examples from each:



If anyone has any other personal favourites feel free to post here so we can comment on your taste and applaud/mock as it is deemed necessary.
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post #2 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:12pm
Found this one a couple of months back. A crime story by Enrico Casarosa, a Pixar artist.

http://haiku5-7-5.com/
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post #3 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:28pm
Still a fan of Penny Arcade.
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post #4 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:31pm
Enrico is pretty amazing.
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post #5 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:34pm
Nothing Better is probably the best webcomic on the net.

others that are still great are:
scary-go-round
questionable content
Waspi Square
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post #6 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:47pm
Ctrl-Alt-Del, especially if you're a gamer.

Sexy Losers has been around quite awhile and the artist took a pretty long hiatus. Recently began drawing again. NSFW
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post #7 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:49pm
Nuh-uh, the best webcomic around is clearly Achewood.
I'm sure you've read it at some point, it's a webcomic about the rich and surreal lives of talking animal plush toys.

Give it a whirl, it's got great humor and great writing.


My second favorite is the relentless Dinosaur Comics.
Basically they use the same artwork over and over again, they just change the text. This webcomic has been running for quite a few years now, it's impressive how fresh it still is.


I used to really like Perry Bible Fellowship, but that webcomic's burned out for a while now.
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post #8 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:51pm
Also, the art on A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible is quite possibly the single greatest on webcomics.
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post #9 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:52pm
http://somethingpositive.net/sp12192001.shtml

http://xkcd.com/289/

Both are direct links to good examples of strips in the typical style of the comics, though both deviate from formula a lot (especially xkcd, which is always delicious and always surprising)
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post #10 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus

I used to really like Perry Bible Fellowship, but that webcomic's burned out for a while now.
This is factually innacurate.
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post #11 of 69
8/16/07 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus
I used to really like Perry Bible Fellowship, but that webcomic's burned out for a while now.
Sorry, but I take Millette's side here. You're trippin. But if you persist in maintaining that wrong opinion (free country) you may enjoy XKCD quite a lot.
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post #12 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:00pm
Seriously, the "Preserves" strip from the week before last killed me. And ANY strip that features gems such as "Mr. Rex" and "Punch Bout" has earned its lifetime achievement award.

Plus, unlike Dinosaur Comics, someone actually fucking draws it.
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post #13 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:08pm
The Preserves strip was quite good, but it was the only decent one from the latest few. Plus the whole concept had already been done much better in the one strip with the hammer and the screwdriver.


Another tip: Chicks go crazy for A Softer World. I quite like it, but sometimes the emo side pops up too much.
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post #14 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus
Nuh-uh, the best webcomic around is clearly Achewood.
I'm sure you've read it at some point, it's a webcomic about the rich and surreal lives of talking animal plush toys.

Give it a whirl, it's got great humor and great writing.
I used to really like Perry Bible Fellowship, but that webcomic's burned out for a while now.
The cats are real, I think it's just Cornelius, Teodor, and Philippe who are stuffed animals. Either way, it's great.

You are very wrong about the PBF.

I think Wondermark is pretty good, too.
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post #15 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:12pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus
The Preserves strip was quite good, but it was the only decent one from the latest few.
ANOTHER LIE.

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post #16 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:15pm
I enjoy Full Frontal Nerdity and PVP.
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post #17 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:17pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
ANOTHER LIE.
Half-decent, AT BEST (I'm not counting the artwork in my judgement)

What do you say to Exhibit A, then? Or Exhibit B?
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post #18 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:18pm
Both better than clipart comics, and funny.

Face it, you're just fucking wrong.
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post #19 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:19pm
We'd then submit People's Exhibit 3.

Win.
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post #20 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:20pm
That is a good one too. But two good strips on the latest fifteen does not make for a good ratio.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Both better than clipart comics, and funny.

Face it, you're just fucking wrong.
I'm sorry I could not help you see the light, then!

When the revolution comes the supporters of latter-day PBF will be the first against the wall.
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post #21 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:20pm
Or, of course, Exhibit FUCK YOU, NEXUS.
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post #22 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:24pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
That is a very tame fuck you.

How can those strips even compare to something from back in the day like this one
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post #23 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:26pm
Easily.

You've failed at this thread so completely, now leave in shame.
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post #24 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:28pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexus
I used to really like Perry Bible Fellowship, but that webcomic's burned out for a while now.
Crack. You. Are. On.

Magic Eyes and Service Culture speak against you.
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post #25 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:29pm
Besides, Astronaut Fall isn't even one of the better early strips.

For example.
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post #26 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:30pm
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post #27 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:33pm
A not-very-good Achewood strip doesn't do anything to help your rapidly crumbling case.
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post #28 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:33pm
If you're a sports fan you might enjoy The Dugout.

And while not really a comic in and of itself, I love Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke where ... well it's basically what it says but hilarious.

I'll throw my support behind XKCD. As a software developer I also find the humor in many of its programming jokes.

This non-programming one is rather great though:
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post #29 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:34pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Millette
A not-very-good Achewood strip doesn't do anything to help your rapidly crumbling case.
Hey, I've given up trying to bring you to reason, this is just me giving you THE FINGER

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post #30 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus
I would argue that the above needs some sort of contextualization for the comic as a whole whereas PBF can stand on it's individual strips.
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post #31 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:36pm
Your finger is small and flaccid, Nexus, much like the rest of your withered, useless anatomy.
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post #32 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:40pm
That's like entirely the opposite of what your mom said about me.

EXCEPT SHE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT MY FINGER


She was talking about my dick. Because I fucked her, so hard.
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post #33 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:41pm
I wish I could go back in time and castrate your father, but that'd mean I'd have to go after every postman in Europe.
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post #34 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:43pm
continuing to pimp xkcd:




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post #35 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:43pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by scsotdc
Crack. You. Are. On.

Magic Eyes and Service Culture speak against you.
The Service Culture strip is brilliantly subtle. There's some basic humor up front with the idea of someone calling the stork because their baby hasn't been delivered, and then you see the background image and it's just gold.
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post #36 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:43pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Millette
I wish I could go back in time and castrate your father, but that'd mean I'd have to go after every postman in Europe.
At least my father had a dick, you virgin birth!
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post #37 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:43pm
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post #38 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:44pm
Wondermark has a good blend of crudity, oddity, and 1840's-style art.



Edit: Shit, a lot has been posted since I started typing this and got distracted reading comics.

And I don't know if this counts as a comic, but Indexed sure is unique. Venn diagram humour at an alarming rate.

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post #39 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:44pm
Better to be a virgin birth than a perpetual virgin.
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post #40 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:46pm
I would certainly prefer to be in a state of perpetual virginity than to have lost it to all your schoolmates in the locker room.
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post #41 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:47pm
When did we start talking about your sister?
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post #42 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:47pm
Oh for fuck's sake, just neg-rep me back already so we can end this and move on.
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post #43 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:48pm
Alright alright, you party pooper.
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post #44 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:51pm
Moving on, I submit the following, though they're pretty continuity-heavy strips:

Scary Go Round
Goats
Ugly Hill
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post #45 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:54pm
Those XKCD strips remind me of the stuff from Reodorant.

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post #46 of 69
8/16/07 at 1:54pm
Thread Starter 
The continuity heavy strips always turn me off at first. I hated achewood until I actually went through the archives and learned about all the characters. One comic I always come back to is Gone with the Blastwave, which updates so rarely it's barely a comic. 37 strips in two years.

edit: hmmm no image linking to that site it seems

http://www.blastwavecomic.com/
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post #47 of 69
8/16/07 at 2:08pm
xkcd has another really good Guitar hero strip which I am too lazy to search for.
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post #48 of 69
8/16/07 at 2:12pm
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post #49 of 69
8/16/07 at 2:44pm

I never liked Perry Bible Fellowship or Achewood.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexus
Also, the art on A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible is quite possibly the single greatest on webcomics.
The writing is beautiful too. Witness: Now We Are Poor Again or the more meditative Tiny, Almost Manageable. It's really too bad it's finished.

Most of the stuff I read that isn't continuity-heavy has been mentioned already. I pick up gag-a-day strips like [URL="http://www.partiallyclips.com/"] periodically, but rarely stick with them like I will with narrative comics.
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post #50 of 69
8/16/07 at 5:39pm
www.losanjealous.com/nfc/
That's a great site that pairs up a random Family Circus with a random Nietzsche quote. Also, I'm glad someone mentioned the comedy gold that is "Joe Mathlete explains today's Marmaduke". I really should have bought a "Marmaduke is an Asshole" t-shirt.
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