Please try not to mention Penny Arcade herein, alright?
The ongoing history of the Achewood plushies and their friends, through insanity, financial enterprise, love, gruesome murders, trips to foreign countries, outer space and the great beyond. Embedded into story arcs, the strip is much more fun to read in a sequence of strips, but you don't have to. Chris Onstead makes up for any loss of plotline with pretty much everything such a simplistic webcomic can offer for amusement in a few panel's worth of time. Of course it doesn't stop there or anywhere. The characters even have their very own weblogs!
http://please.leisuretown.us/leisuretown/
Always worth a revisit into these golden times when the strip was still created: An LSD trip of a weirdo with tourette syndrome.
Pretty much the best crappy and trashy MSPAINT-style comic strip out there.
Doesn't get updated lately, unfortunately. PS: MSPAINT rules!
http://www.elftor.com/elftor.php?number=112
Cat and Girl involved in & about philosophy, economics, politics, literature, art theory & practice and a lot more stuff, like carefully acted out studies of the effects and consequences about the consume of paint and a few remarks on the illustrous zombie Joseph Beuys.
Submitted dreams forced in and acted out on the format of 4 panels per strip.
The results are pretty worthwhile.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~voinonen/vibbelandia/
Not really a webcomic but a nice selection of art by this Finnish artist with a collection of his own comic strips, some of them translated into English.
How could I forget
http://www.drunkanddisorderly.net/spacemoose/archive.htm
The archives of roughly 10 years of this veteran comic strip about Space Moose, the most awesome moose ever. Highly retarded and recommended!
Wow, Karu Lounto has a webbage? I've only seen it in magazines, and only very rarely... I've even translated one comic myself because I like it so much.
The Hermit: http://www.helsinki.fi/~voinonen/vibbelandia/erakko/erakko1.htm
Ok, I guess I should stop spamming this thread already.
Are we talking just-web-comics here, or comics-that-are-on-the-web? Because in the latter case, one would have to mention Maakies (http://www.maakies.com/), Underworld (http://www.kazunderworld.com/), Bob the Angry Flower (http://www.angryflower.com/), &c, &c.
Bob the Angry Flower sucks.
But whatever, I don't care if they are comics only on the net or also available in some other medium. Only thing that matters is that they are on the internet. Bonus points for free ones.
Too much links and not enough praise. I am too suspicious of the internet to click them all without knowing what they be.
http://www.qwantz.com/ rocks
A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible. Shouldn't be on the Internet, not low-quality enough. English.
http://www.alessonislearned.com
Isometric. Everyone knows this & Pokey I think.
http://isometric.sixsided.org/
Gummbah - not a webcomic, more of a comic repository. For once a really funny comic (?) on the internet. Dutch. Not for the faint of heart. Epic.
http://gummbah.sucks.nl/
Myyrakuume. Now in English.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~late82/myyrakuume_1.html
My New Filing/Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable. Blazer BEST! Everyone knows this, too.
http://www.mnftiu.cc
Red meat. I HATE YOU MILKMAN DAN!
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/
>A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible. Shouldn't be on the Internet, not low-quality enough. English.
This is actually so good, it should be published by Fantagraphics and then nobody would buy it.
> Myyrakuume. Now in English.
>> ...is a comic strip that appears in the finnish Johnny kniga magazine.
Johnny Kniga rocks. Also, this comic is kind of demented.
The following webcomics are the only webcomics that deserve to exist at all. (Bob the Angry Flower doesn't count it is published)
I will second the motion that Achewood is absolutely brilliant. Achewood.com for the interested. If you liked Aqua Teen Hunger Force back when it was good, you'll probably enjoy this stuff.
Another one with a similar level of hilarity but distinctly different comedic style is The Adventures of Spelling the Vacuum, at www.room931.com
www.errantstory.com
A surprisingly well-written story that starts out a little FF-ish but gets pretty good.
www.exploitationnow.com
Dead, but still amazingly funny. The first half's the best.
www.meninhats.com
Pretty cynical comic, but funny.
www.choppingblock.org
A one-panel comic about a serial killer.
www.plif.com
INSANE
> www.errantstory.com
I dunno, I've been following it from the start, and I'm still waiting for it to begin.
I forgot to buy the book :(
>>21 is wonderful art wasted on yet another insipid lol-me-and-my-friends-are-wacky comic.
True ( ´－｀)
The recent ones are worse because the guy writing for him had to do crazy things like graduate and get an actual job. Ian just does it for the art; the best ones don't even have plots.
> Ian just does it for the art
That's no excuse!
http://beaverandsteve.com is kewl
http://www.megatokyo.com is k001
Dmpk2k the Magnificent foresees a flamewar in the near future.
Actually, Megatokyo is the only webcomic I'm following.
Most every day I check:
Bruno the Bandit
Elf Life
Errant Story
Faans
Megatokyo
Pastel Defender Heliotrope
Penny Arcade
Red Meat
Schlock Mercenary
Sinfest
Sluggy Freelance
Something Positive
Strange Candy
I did a reading marathon on some of these when I found them first (and then never went back.)
In order of preference:
and a couple of others I forgot the name...
that black and white comic about a sad guy who has a semi-Japanese sister in love with him?
Also that morbid/incest comic which invented the sound effect fapfapfap?
And that comic about a guy who goes to an university campus and he gets a weird foreign roommate?
>Also that morbid/incest comic which invented the sound effect fapfapfap?
dunno about "invented", but popularized...
http://www.sexylosers.com
>And that comic about a guy who goes to an university campus and he gets a weird foreign roommate?
an accurate plot description for circa 30% of the popular webcomics out there...
PS: didn't mention http://www2b.sakura.ne.jp/~steed/ before because I assume(d) everyone knows it, but it's a nice little paradox to go on my list.
sick!
long overdue update to this stuff presented in no particular order
http://dresdencodak.com/ - meh, occasionally brilliant
http://www.palfloat.com/comic/ - the farside gone wrong, the other stuff on palfloat is also worth checking out
http://www.qwantz.com/apologies/ - usually tripe but sometimes funny, and quite interesting to boot
http://www.cabanonpress.com/index.htm - the 'writer at work' series is good, most of the site is in fact, plus it looks cool
http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html - yeah, everyone knows it, but it's still missing from the list, and is one of the few things worth keeping in my tabs thingy
http://www.perfectstars.com/ - kinda like 'a lesson is learned' but kinda different too
http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil/episodes - old and good, existentialist robots ahoy
http://www.boltcity.com/copper_home.htm - deserves to be mentioned for being reminding me of calvin & hobbes
http://www.hingos.com/patches/ - is cute
dig
http://postnukecomic.com - Really awesome art, but I can't say the same about the webdesign.
http://questionablecontent.net/ - 9 strips out of 10 is about the characters, the other 1 outa 10 is about indie rock.
I read:
Perry Bible Fellowship
Ghaslty Comic
Manga Clone Army stuff
Mac Hall
Penny Arcade
Sexy Losers
Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)
I'm checking dresden codac, chugworth and The Noob @ http://www.thenoobcomic.com/ a must for mmo players
What ever happened to comics that were funny to people and not to special interest groups?
First of all i'd like to mention
simply because it contains some of the finest work ever produced from the worlds best online and offline comic artists, presented in graphic novel format. I simply cannot wait till i recieve volume 1 and 2 in the mail.
http://www.boltcity.com/copper_home.htm
This comic REALLY needs to be mentioned; Every single issue has unique and individual meaning - kudos to kazu for producing such fine work.
http://www.whiteninjacomics.com
Sparse. Irreverent. Brilliant.
http://www.blankwatercomics.com/archive.htm
One of the newer comics around, and i have nothing but praise for it. Involves the day to day life of god and the devil, ironically, the devil is more level headed compared to god.
finally, absolutely one of the finest comics around, dead mouse just screams for a publisher. A paragon of pure gothic horror, i can do no more than bow down to Dead Mouse' 'Ballad'
I give you http://www.deadmouse.net/comics.htm
Leisuretown sure is back
>>49
There's nothing to "get".
Been going for a while, my favourite.
It's weird how every single comic listed in this thread sucks.
>>53 is DQN
Not DGN, I'm serious. No one here has listed any comic that I like.
Actually let me give an example. This might show you how this DQN is thinking.
Copper --
The drawing style is alright. The character design, I have no problems with it.
What I hate is that it does not introduce any new ideas to my brain. It doesn't get me to think. It seems to be TRYING to do that, the author's INTENT may be to be intelligent or deeper than superficial.
However, it's just like every single other deeper-than-superficial comic out there. There's nothing new.
Also, every huge, landscapy panel enrages me. Why does everything have to be so perfect? Where is the conflict? Where is the dark secret of Copper and his dog? They are narcissistic, yet the author seems to be saying, "It's fine to be narcissistic! This is the human condition. Enjoy it!" instead of throwing a giant nuclear bomb at Copper for the hell of it, like he should do.
Plus, even worse is that the main character is a male. Do females not explore and have surfy adventures? 90% of webcomics like Copper have male main characters, and it's just so typical that it turns me off. The female characters that are introduced are only identified by their relation with the male character. It's as though the author had never even heard of feminist post-modern literary theory, or even worse, is rejecting it.
I was totally falling for >>57's troll until he got to the line:
> It's as though the author had never even heard of feminist post-modern literary theory, or even worse, is rejecting it.
Man, that was hilarious. GJ!
thanks :D
Although, within every troll is a kernel of truuth
On a related note, what the hell is 'feminist post-modern literary theory'?
Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to.
If you can understand it, http://web.archive.org/web/20041015101324/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/baym/essays/feminism.htm has good info.
It is ... "For essentialism, and against it. For women gaining power through art's politics by means of usurping masculine modes, and against women who succeed at the cost of picking up the vile habits involved in the making of patriarchal art. For women inspired by the domestic arts of "the mothers," and against a woman's art that regresses to the trivia of painted china and embroidery needles. For women who gain access to art's inspiration through joining the community of sisters, and against the notion that women who struggle alone reinscribe Romantic images of male genius."
I got the link from http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/theory.html which has lots of other links of a similar nature. Most of it is surely BS, but if you study what you dislike then you'll know why you dislike it.
>>62
looks like great trolling material...
Irreverent British humo(u)r mostly revolving around the occult, and silly pretty girls.
http://cupofsuffering.keenspace.com
Rarely updated, but COMEDY GOLD. Switches between one-shot strips and a story arc about conquering hell.
http://cupofsuffering.keenspace.com/vault/030426.html <-- best evar.
http://alienlovespredator.com/index.php
Alien and Predator are roommates in New York. Jesus plays for the Yankees. Hilarity ensues.
>>65 "Alien loves Predator" sucks. Boring and unfunny no matter where in the archive I look.
"Cup of Suffering"... cryptic and meaningless without intended either, therefore sucks.
"Scarygoround" ... god wtf is wrong with you
People seem to like Scarygoround, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.
I think it's funny the thread starter said "No Penny Arcade please" and then mentioned Cat and Girl. They are the same thing from different directions (i.e. shit)
>>68
Opinions are like assholes. No. 1 was simply excluding the single strip Penny Arcade which is widely agreed to be unfunny.
Recent "most unfunny strip" statistics, as collected by onlinecomics.net in July 2005:
99% User Friendly
75% Penny Arcade
67% Megatokyo
63% Sluggy Freelance
50% 8 Bit Theater
48% Bob and George
33% Cat and Girl
31% Jerk City
01% The Parking Lot is Full
00% Listening to 11.975MHz
It's kinda unfair to list "Cat and Girl" there because the strip rarely tries to be funny. It's more about wit & intellectualism. But then again, I think comic strips stopped trying to be funny some decades ago already, even before interweb.
Cat and Girl is shit not because it is "unfunny". It's ridiculous to deem it funny or unfunny, like you said, it's about intellectualism.
It is shit because its "wit & intellectualism" seems to be designed for people who don't really read as much as they think they do. In the end, the comic introduces NOTHING NEW, only restates already stale concepts. (unless you think the fact they're being restated in visual form makes them somehow fresh again)
>>71
Well, it does. Usually philosophical concepts are not expressed in comic strip form. So basically it's a bunch of inside jokes for philosophers.
>Usually philosophical concepts are not expressed in comic strip form.
I would beg to differ. I have read I-don't-know-how-many comics from the US, Asia and Europe that express "philosophical concepts."
>So basically it's a bunch of inside jokes for philosophers.
If that is true, then I would say the comic has very little to offer in the long run.
I think the main problem with why you don't like Cat and Girl is that you think it's about philosophy.
I don't think it's about philosophy at all. I don't like the comic because it adds nothing of value to my life. It doesn't make me think about anything new. This is because anything mentioned by Cat and Girl has already been mentioned in another form by other comics. "Philosophy" is besides the point and I don't know why >>72 brought it up.
Sorry, I made a mistake.
>anything mentioned by Cat and Girl has already been mentioned in another form by other comics.
Please read instead
>anything mentioned by Cat and Girl has dealt with in much better fashion in other media, including comics
But Cat and Girl features the best review of the last episode of Evangelion reviewing itself!
Great comic about philosophy and deep thoughts:
Okay, so I was lying about the philosophy part. And the deep thoughts part.
This link sucks.
Zen Speaks! It's pretty good, although I'm not a zen buddhist, so I can't speak for it's zen qualities. It also manages to be entertaining, and even funny, despite being about enlightenment more than humor.
I like scary go round, at least early on. Haven't seen it in ages, so it may not be nearly as good anymore.
Having a crush on Zombie Shelley didn't hurt either:
http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20021031
>http://www.chugworth.com
too aminu for me
