Webcomics: S/D

MegaTokyo has been on the verge of joining that list for about two years, but I keep reading it.

I sound so negative now! Bobbins was great, and is no longer being written; but John does Scary Go Round now, which is sometimes better, and uses many of the same characters. Both of them are strips that are better once you've read them for a couple weeks -- not for continuity/plot reasons like with so many of the popular webcomics, but because you get the rhythm of it.

1) I don't have the time or interest to read a year's worth of archives to catch up on the story. I have two piles of books next to my desk I've been meaning to read, and a nice town library.

2) I have an allergic reaction to self-righteousness, and to the things people write to illustrate their opinions on whatever it is that's near and dear to them this week. This is why I don't read the syndicated strip Frazz anymore, either.

3) People who are constantly unhappy, angry, depressed, or under the influence of teenage hormones produce terrible art more often than not, but will frequently find other unhappy, angry, depressed, or teenage people to cheer them on.

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i visit get your war on and explodingdog. the 2nd one isn't so much a comic as it is art. the guy makes pictures based on words or a sentence people send him. cool.

(Tell us more about Daily Dinosaur Comics, Vic? That's the only one mentioned so far that I haven't heard of.)

Essentially it's a strip which uses the same pictures every day, only changing the words. Withing this limitation it crafts strips of unearthly beauty.

Actually, I've scanned back through the archives and stuff that I thought was kind of "meh" in the daily format is great when you read it in a big chunk, like the whole thing with the haunted house and the Harry Potter parodies.

That hasn't stopped me from digging through the entire archive like a big fool, so it must have something going for it, much like a car crash.

PvP does have way too many moments where Kurtz-the-guy overshadows Kurtz-the-cartoonist, but the best moments are still better than most current newspaper comics. (I realize that these days that's faint praise.)

MegaTokyo, I have no idea how to explain. A lot of weeks, I skip it altogether, and then start reading again without catching up on the old strips. It was definitely better in the beginning, and the art isn't consistent enough any more for that to be my reason for reading. I dunno. You've got me.

GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!!! HELLO, SEXXY WORLD!!!!!

It's old.

What webcomics are you guys currently reading? (guilty pleasure + not) Like anything you've still got on your RSS feed or do that few month at a time reading session thing? Here are all of mine (way more guilty pleasure* than actual pleasure at this point):

Achewood
Comic Critics (thru the Comics Should Be Good feed)
Pearls Before Swine (newspaper comic, not webcomic, but in my RSS feed)
Penny Arcade
PvP
Questionable Content
Tom Tomorrow
xkcd
Medium Large
Happle Tea

*Meaning here that it gave me pleasure at one point, or I fell into soap opera'y relationship to the comic and now I just read it because I've been reading it for so long. Only comics in this list I'd strongly go to bat for in the last year are Medium Large + Achewood. Looking for something new and exciting!

Oh, and of course Axe Cop, but I only read that once in awhile.

I'm not sure if my not knowing a word of russian is coloring my view, but I can't think of a better site than caricatura.ru

http://caricatura.ru/parad/vasilenko/pic/15489.gif

http://caricatura.ru/black/alex_gordin/pic/684.jpg

I really like that whoever did this probably did it during a boring lecture on the back of the xeroxed study materials.

I think my favorite is Dinosaur Comics!

I used to read Dinosaur Comics every day, but the shtick wears off imo after awhile.

i should stress that the comics on caricatura.ru have a wider range than just people brandishing weapons. (no offense to axe cop)

There seems to be a huge concern in axe cop about people joining each other's teams and whatnot -- it is secretly a comic about the formation of community!

Just noticed that Jason Little's Motel Art Improvement Service (aka Bee) is going to print via Dark Horse next month... good for him!

http://marvel.com/news/story/15347/fear_itself_deadpool

Chris Hastings (Dr. McNinja) writing Deadpool

http://www.romanticallyapocalyptic.com/

I love it.

Wasn't sure at first, but I was convinced by this one:
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/001/d/7/romantically_apocalyptic_05_by_alexiuss-d2hvyon.jpg

Kerr found this one and posted it on the chatz thread. It's amazing:
http://nedroid.com/2009/05/party-cat-full-series/

The Nedroid stuff is hilarious sometimes.

I think the only webcomic I read regularly now is Hark, A Vagrant. http://www.harkavagrant.com/

Kate Beaton is awesome.

Anybody ever read Bad Machinery? A lot of webcomics wear out their welcome with me really quickly, but Bad machinery is a long-form serial narrative and quite enjoyable if you don't mind something that adults and teens could both like: http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20090921. That narration drops out really quickly (was surprised to see it there).

Whoa - I didn't even know John Allison had anything new. I loved Bobbins and Scary Go Round, I don't know when I lost track of him!

OH man, I envy you getting to read a whole bunch of it at your own pace! I've not read his earlier stuff, but my brother who reads a lot of webcomics thinks Bad Machinery is a big step up from SGR.

SGR definitely went through good and bad patches. I really don't know how I missed this! This is a good week to find out about this, I have a big block of free time on Thursday.

I've been digging Allison's work for a few years now -- I really think he's brilliant.

Daily webcomic checks: Bad Machinery, Diesel Sweeties, Scenes from a Multiverse*, WIGU and/or Overcompensating depending on what Rowland is focusing on at the time.

*currently sporadic while Rosenberg's wife is going through a difficult pregnancy

A lot of webcomics wear out their welcome with me really quickly

Also, I'm with you on this. This was probably what happened with me and Sluggy Freelance, mentioned at the top of the thread, and I still have Order of the Stick in Google Reader because when I first saw it I thought the whole conceit of "D&D characters talk and think in game-mechanics terms" was hilarious, but I haven't actually clicked on the link to read the comic in ages. I don't think it got worse, the novelty just wore off.

(And I'm not really some crazed rage-comicaholic. I remember when The Simpsons were known as the crudest thing on television and since then, I've seen Beavis & Butthead -> South Park (->Terrence & Phillip) -> all down the line to where we now have c&p'd panels with badly drawn Disney characters speaking in mangled text. Can't wait to see what comes next.)

Hey Whiney, when you try so hard to be an asshole on the internet, it affects people's "IRL life." The division isn't as clean as you'd like it to be.

yah, but we do have a general line of demarcation regarding people's jobs or unwanted conversation that connects their ILX username with their IRL names
so deep breath let's all be cool? feel free to call each other dicks maybe? i hear that's what the kids are doing these days

or ask dickish q's to whiney on the "whiney q&a" thread, instead of going off-topic in this thread clearly delineated for whiney to be a dick in

The sweaty babies = classic surreal farce, not my tiptop favourite thing but I'll eat it up all day, sure. The same joke as eg Father Ted (which might be my tip top favourite thing, now that I think about it)

The apple store comic it's against = shit in a can. And totally filling space to fill space, the first two panels could be removed and it'd still be as funny which = no funny. And also with the pop culture reference that you hate?

Is it a thing where you see the art as being as bad in both, but twp is worse because it's trying?

Cuh, some of us were doing comics drawn badly for humorous effect years before these 4chan upstarts.

However, comics where the creators actually give a shit about quality can also be worthwhile. Such as Nedroid or Gunnerkrigg Court.

Who knows, perhaps there is room for both in this world. IMAGINE THAT!

Hey Whiney, when you try so hard to be an asshole on the internet, it affects people's "IRL life." The division isn't as clean as you'd like it to be.
--bamcquern

I'm making fun of web comics and you're making fun of my job and career and personal life. There's a clear, unblurry distinction there and if you can't see it, maybe the moderators can

Sorry for response, didn't see that forks covered this... Carry on, thread.

Ha, goaste. I was in love with their versions of Nemi strips.

xposts

hey whiney can you tell us why Pup and Bodyworld and When I Am King are shit?

When did WGW go off script and get personal with anyone here? Unless you're all taking these twee-ass strips to heart and finding your chivalry threatened when they're called out for the shit they are.

I probably need to just take my business over to this thread since both the dolans and the "kids have fun" strips can join hands together and be as one there:

What's the worst online comic strip?

honestly, i'm just tired of seeing him troll every thread. dude needs to chill (on ILX, i have no business knowing about his personal life)

Whiney only trolls on the threads where I disagree with him.

Haha, not true at all.

goofy pls

http://i.imgur.com/O0E87.png

http://harkavagrant.com/nonsense/SF1.jpg

Patrick Farley's NSFW flash comic The First Word is a hold-onto-your-hats bit of amazement. Wow.

whoa, neat. some inventive animations/transitions

man, that guy's been doing those FOREVER; i remember apocamon from what must've been just around 2000

tbf though, this is a lot better IMO than the stuff he did in the early '00s

oh no doubt! definitely channeling some corben there.

corben comparison OTM

http://www.tcj.com/webcomics-capsule-reviews-2/

http://vimeo.com/58412851

http://25.media.tumblr.com/c1ee750cf3a524ee8e5e92a011c4ef2a/tumblr_moipfvh1f01qd18uko1_500.png

http://biebercomic.tumblr.com/post/53190105484/biebercomic-sean-t-collins-michael-hawkins

mordy. mordy. no

Nhex and I finally agree on something itt.

Akkkkk, alterna-lit dudes who write fan-fiction, possibly the worst form of art outside of latte foam sculptures

http://24.media.tumblr.com/f5ed665773ac517879e54926e5e4fa36/tumblr_my2xcktI9K1rnw5qjo5_500.png

http://lamezone.net/cosm/img/cosm22.png

um.

yeah, that was my reaction.

reminds me of some of the study group stuff

http://www.sassquach.com/journal/2013/11/4/boys-night.html

yeah, that's written by john landis' kid, who also wrote the movie Chronicle

In January 2012, Variety reported that Disney picked up a pitch Landis made for a space adventure focusing on a brother and sister. The film is set to be produced by Wedding Crashers producer Andrew Panay.[20]

Zathura 2!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b71582cb166691afb706e99af17e5c2/tumblr_my2j2wR7CG1t9xnk4o1_500.jpg

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2014/09/24/acclaimed-webcomic-strong-female-protagonist-is-coming-to-print/?

thanks for that nhex, i just power read the first two issues. it's very good!

Strong Female Protagonist is A++ btw; highly recommended.
http://blankslatebooks.co.uk/zygote/masterplasty.html
http://harveyjames.tumblr.com/

SFP is a gem, glad you like
this harvey james's stuff is pretty cool, great faces and color

I also power-read SFP, was fucking great. Very happy to have discovered that.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media

Recommending - story starts here

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjMM_ONr1JZ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Oh, that looks great. Really nice art. It's hard to find good narrative webcomics these days, but I have enjoyed both Ninecrow and Everything Is Fine. They're both horror, Ninecrow has great art but feels a little traditional story-wise, whereas Everything Is Fine isn't amazing art-wise but does manage to be pretty genuinely disturbing at times.

nice to see false knees having a go at a real story

Ninecrow starts off rough in both writing and art, but gets good by the end. Looking forward to Book 2 whenever it happens. Hoping this gets a Netflix adaptation someday, feels like its made for TV

Everything is Fine is great so far, still going through it