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.
