Webcomics Central

[NemZ]

Webcomics, you read 'em? I do. Good times, right?

This is the new EGF home for the topic, both for recommendations and discussions. A few ground rules though:

1) Don't post the whole dang comic. The creators of these works would probably rather people viewed them at their own sites, especially if they have any desire for ad revenue. A few samples and a link is sufficient.

2) Use spoilers for comics and label them appropriately. If a comic has NSFW content that should also be spelled out.

3) This is only for ongoing works. That means either a single narrative, a series of one-shots, or anything in between. If it's just a random thing you found go ahead and toss it on the latest Moonwalk thread instead.

4) This is only for content that is primarily hosted online. Do NOT link to download hubs for pirated materials available in other forms.

5) A list of recommendations and links will be kept (next post). Please check to see if whatever you want to post is already on that list before you post it.

6) Discussion of said comics is perfectly acceptable here, but some people care about spoilers so be mindful of that.

7) Have fun!

[NemZ]

Recommendations Archive:

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Ongoing Narratives:

Alice Grove
All new stuff from the creator of Questionable Content

Dresden Codak

Dumbing of Age
Slice-of-life College hijinks with a likeable cast.

EMMA
Little girl fights the undead in a post-apocalyptic world.

Erfworld
Fairly complex narrative about fantasy war gaming.

Freefall
...not sure what's going on, but it appears to involve furries.

Garfield Minus Garfield
It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

Girl Genius
Steampunk adventure comedy, woo!

Gunnerkrigg Court
Steampunk magical boarding school

Homestuck
...Its complicated.

Life is Posers
Punk's not dead!

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Gaming humor about how hard it is to be a big musclebound lummox.

Misfile
Think Oh, My Goddess meets Ranma 1/2.

Oglaf NSFW
Mostly fantasy-themed sex comic. Every once in a while it has a clean post.

Order of the Stick
D&D comic essentially following a very long-running campaign. With stick figure art.

Questionable Content
It's kind of a big deal. Also Pwhodges is the forum admin over there.

Scary Go Round
Essentially British weirdness

Schlock Mercenary
...apparently a space opera?

Sluggy Freelance

Something Positive
Utterly misanthropic

Spinnerette
Spiderman parody comic

Undying Happiness
Sweet and crazy with a plot

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Korean-style webcomics:

Girls of the Wilds
One guy in an all-female private school full of incredible martial artists.

Tower of God

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One Shots:

Existential Comics
Philosophy can be funny, really. Sometimes.

Heck If I Know
All sorts of crazy stuff.

Perry Bible Fellowship
Basically The Far Side with more bitterness.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Science can also be quite funny, especially when people don't understand it!

XKCD
If you don't know what this is you fail at the internet.

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Tumblr Comics:

floccinaucinihilipilification
Dumbledore is a jerk.

Erma
What if the girl from The Ring had a kid?

Help Us Great Warrior

Ticcy Art
"Waifu Emblem" and other fanarts

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Completed Works:

Anders Loves Maria
Classic slice of life

FreakAngels
Warren Ellis did a free web comic! Read it!

Krakow

Ow, My Sanity

Problem Sleuth
A finished work by the same people behind Homestuck

[Rosenakahara]

Is it ok to keep posting the comics i take from tumblr like i do? mostly because tumblr comics have a watermark on them 90% of them time to tell you what the creators tumblr is and tumblr is in itself a sharing site.

Though you guys should all read this if its a general webcomics thread now:

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I need to catch up on the series but spinerette is just awesome, it manages to parody superheroes and do it well without ever coming off like it doesn't still love everything about them and manages to get serious at times and have some damn good drama, Rose's seal of approval on this one

I wont post all of issue one but i will post the first few pages:

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And yes that guy is meant to be basically gendo in appearance.

EDIT: bah forgot to link the comic because im an idiot [url]http://www.spinnyverse.com/index.php?id=1[/url]

[NemZ]

Got a link for that comic?

And really you should probably just link to the tumblr in question anyway, or find out if they have a website. Do a little research, and don't clutter up this thread with endless posts of the same thing... those who like it will follow it, those who don't wont' have to sift through constant updates.

[Rosenakahara]

Eh and this is what i was talking about though, i enjoyed posting the daily fire emblem comic and i enjoy posting erma when a new one is released, it feels like it has more value than just posting a link that may be forgotten about a year from now when we are at the webcomics thread 2 or 3 (or this thread was forgotten about).
I feel like a thread like the weird images thread but for comics with a mix of the rules you set down would be best because that way people get a reminder, not everyone has a tumblr ect. :/

I think part of the reason the weird images thread has lasted so long is the way it is set out, the "no sharing the full comic" rule seems fine for a long established and actually publicised series like spinerette or the like but for something like the FE comic or erma where the point is the occasional digest when its updated i feel like that shouldn't be a rule that applies :/

[Stillborn]

Ah spinerette... I remeber it. Never got into it tough. Sadly, most of webcomics I do get interested in is on hiatus or dropped. (Like the Sailor Moon webcomic I dropped here left and right XD)

Aside from that one this is another one of my favs.

http://owmysanity.comicgenesis.com/d/20091225.html

I absolutely love this comic :P

Since navigation may be problematic at first, this little picture with the "next day" written under it serves as next page button.

[Baz]

Let's not forget that the writer for Spinnerette used to draw his own comics:
[url]http://www.krakow.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20030314[/url]

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[NemZ]

I added a whole bunch that I follow up above. Way too many to go over in any real detail, honestly. If anyone would like to suggest a short blurb for their recommendations just send me a PM and I'll add it.

This thread is NOT just for recommendations though... that would curl up and die of boredom super fast. Posting particular comics you want to talk about is totally cool, and this is the place to do it.

As for the tumblr comics... just link to the creator's tumblr if they don't have a dedicated web page.

[StarShaper7]

I haven't followed it in a while, but this thread reminded me of Help Us Great Warrior!

[Mr. Tines]

My morning routine goes

http://somethingpositive.net/ -- utterly misanthropic
http://www.sluggy.com/ -- mostly out of habit, these days
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
http://scarygoround.com/ -- essentially British weirdness

having cut down a lot in the past decade.

[Bagheera]

Sluggy is still going? Wow. I stopped following it years ago, and it had gotten pretty long in the tooth even then.

[Mr. Tines]

Supposedly it's close to wrapping up, which is why I got back to it after the execrable and overlong Warcraft parody finally ended. But that was a few years ago, and it keeps on keeping on.

[Rosenakahara]

Well since it seems this is the last time i can post this here due to the webcomics thread not at all being what i expected and killing my motivation/ability to post these:

08:

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This was supposed to be shown as a 3 part chapter this time if i feels incomplete, grats you took a good idea and turned it into a reason for me to post less.

[pwhodges]

My current routine:

Questionable Content - See you at the forums!
Alice Grove - New from the creator of QC
Dresden Codak - Very occasional updates in the past, but has new fortnightly schedule
Freefall - Very slow story about robots and society
Gunnerkrigg Court
xkcd

Sometimes I catch up on:

Misfile - Life in the wrong body, but has lost its focus

In the past there was:

Anders loves Maria - Finished; a classic (I have one of the original hand-drawn pages)

[Monk Ed]

grats you took a good idea and turned it into a reason for me to post less.

Come again?

[Cosmo11]

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PiB  SPOILER: Show

[NemZ]

grats you took a good idea and turned it into a reason for me to post less.

Take a longer look at what you're doing, Rose. Yes, you're sharing something you like. Great! Awesome, even. I'm glad you enjoy it, and I'm enjoying it too.

But you're also spamming up the forum with repetitive content. Anyone who was interested in the first place could just as easily just be given the link to the source to look at on their own if they wanted or to ignore at their leisure. Plus by doing it this way you're not giving anyone an incentive to actually check out the creator directly, which is presumably the entire point of posting it in the first place... to build a following. Sharing it and spreading it to others is fine, but EGF is not a mirror host.

I'll update the list again tomorrow, and including a section specifically for Tumblr archives so this comic and the Erma one have a cozy place to exist.

[child of Lilith]

Polandball comic:

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[Omegagouki]

I've had it waffling around in my signature for some time, but hey, now a thread to pop it into.

I'm talking about Homestuck, the current ongoing series at MS Paint Adventures. It's about a thirteen-year-old boy, his three friends, and a video game they wind up playing. Oh, and playing it starts Armageddon... and that's just when it begins getting complicated. Really. Complicated.

For a more simplistic, fairly shorter, but still complex affectionate parodies of adventure games, there's the previous (and complete) adventure, Problem Sleuth, about three film noir detectives and their (mis)adventures in escaping their shared office building complex.

[Sailor Star Dust]

I started reading some of Homestuck years back, but hearing it got complex was a turn off. Maybe someday I'll give it a go.

Anyway, these are good. I stumbled across them by chance 1 night, too.

http://www.tapastic.com/series/Undying-Happiness Sweet and crazy with a plot.

http://www.tapastic.com/series/Regular Heck If I Know: Crazy humor, makes me think of Simpsons humor than say, Family Guy. Looks like 1 is NSFW but I'm assuming it's still funny (didn't read that 1 yet).